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Adorama just published the results of their Reader’s Choice Awards and it is a landslide win for the Pentax K-7.  The poll question was “Which is the most important camera introduced this year?” and the K-7 won 55% of all votes, besting all other models combined.  While there are brands that sell far more DSLR cameras than Pentax, they often hold onto such positions by providing extremely well-specified cameras, and the K-7 is no exception. Unsurprisingly, the K-7 tied for Best Advanced-DSLR of 2009 at Neocamera too.

The K-7 is built around a 14.6 megapixels sensor with ISO range from 100 to 6400. What makes it truly unique is its built-in stabilization system which corrects for the photographer’s horizontal, vertical and rotational movements and works with all lenses compatible with the K-7 at no cost. The same mechanism is used to correct horizontal tilt to obtain more level photographs. The K-7 is also one of only two cameras with a 100% coverage viewfinder offering built-in stabilization, the other one being the twice-as-expensive full-frame Sony Alpha A900. Another class-leading feature is its outstanding weather-sealing which is specified to resist extreme cold down to -10C (14F), colder than any of DSLR.

Neocamera has a detailed review of the K-7 with much more information, including crops a all ISO and all sharpness settings, plus a gallery of images taken with a production Pentax K-7.

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 is the smallest interchangeable lens digital camera. A detailed review of it was just published on Neocamera. This digital camera is built around a Four-Thirds sensor, the same size as the ones used in Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs. Its body is much slimmer because the Micro-Four-Thirds mount does not allow space for a mirror used by a reflex optical viewfinder. Instead, it uses the rear LCD or an optional EVF to frame pictures.

Even though the sensor is the same size as some DSLR cameras, the shorter distance from the sensor to the lens mount allows lenses to be built a bit smaller too, resulting in a noticeably smaller total size compared to an equivalent DSLR. Image quality can be high then and performance is the main factor which will determine how good such cameras will be. Find out about the Panasonic GF1’s handling and performance in Neocamera’s detailed review.

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Today, us visitors are enjoying Black Friday and Amazon.com is having special promotions for the occasion. There are a huge number of deals on digital cameras, digital photo frames and accessories, just follow the Black Friday banner:

Although we do not emphasise it enough, Neocameras has an Amazon Store where you can directly get the best digital cameras of the year through Amazon. The new top category includes all our winners for 2009.

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Over the weekend Neocamera published its detailed review of the Canon Powershot S90, an advanced compact which is in a class of its own. Canon created the S90 with photographic controls in mind, giving it full manual controls and a very efficient interface which is sure to please advanced users. They did not skimp on the rest either, giving it a low-noise 10 megapixels sensor with ISO 80-3200 range and a stabilized wide-angle lens with a bright F/2 maximum aperture and 3.8X optical zoom. Some may be pleased that the S90 also shoots RAW, JPEG and RAW+JPEG.

Read the detailed review to find out how it performed.

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