Instead of writing a review of the newly arrived Transcend 600x CompactFlash cards, we decided to somehow give you an inside of one story that actually came out of nowhere while we tested the cards – if you are photographer, and especially no-US based, you are almost meant to have a notebook instead of regular desktop computer. Or at least you are if you want to save countless minutes copying your files from your camera’s CompactFlash card because of the slow speed of USB card readers out there. …read on

We all know photography got to the stage where if it is not DSLR you don’t trust it to do any decent job. Actually it became something more like “if it doesn’t have at least APS-sized sensor, don’t buy it”, but yet there are those two companies – Olympus and Panasonic, that still try to set up a new trend – of smaller four thirds sensors. Or, which is more apparent – of smaller DSLRs or even range-finders with interchangeable optics. We won’t go into detailed review of their system (not that it doesn’t deserve a review of its own, as we have objections to everything it tries to present), but we feel obliged to talk about one of Olympus’ models that tries to get sentimental: the Pen E-P1, which really sounds as the e-peen it is, as it represents truly the marketing goals of Olympus – tell people it’s good and make it look like camera and they’ll buy it… …read on