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Which? print processing

Which? have tested and reviewed all the major print processing services online and in-store. The results of the online services are:-

86% – Bonusprint
80% – Kodak Easyshare Gallery – best for large prints
66% – Snapfish
58% – Photobox
52% – Colorama
36% – Boots
36% – Club35

Kodak Photo Kiosk came out top for in-store services. It received 65% (a long way off the top online services) and whatever you do don’t touch Tesco, lol. Generally ,though, online stores are a lot cheaper. I’ve been using Photobox for awhile, so after reading the reviews I might look elsewhere.

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Which? digital SLR tests

The consumer assoication’s Which? magazine have tested the current crop of affordable digital SLR cameras. I trust their tests and opinions highly so the reults are:-

78% – Canon EOS 350D – yeah I see lots of people own one of these, best for picture quality + automatic mode
77% – Nikon D50 – A very close second, good LCD
73% – Canon EOS 30D
72% – Sony A100 – best zoom (27-105mm) + IS
69% – Nikon D70s
67% – Olympus E-330
67% – Pentax K10D – best for action shots (0.3 seconds)
66% – Nikon D40 0 best for beginners, gives warnings such as ‘subject too dark’ + access tips
66% – Nikon D80
65% – Pentax K100D
64% – Canon EOS 400D
63% – Samsung GX 1L
62% – Olympus E-400

The web site is a little more up to date and has included the Olympus E-500 at 73% (joint third).

For more details head over to which.co.uk/digitalcameras/ (you will need to be a member to access a lot of the info).

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Interesting link: The First Post

I’m starting to really like this site. It’s called The First Post. It’s basically an online news site. Very well written (though the sports articles appear to be from offline papers, well they did on Sunday) and nice big photos (which makes a change to the stupidly small thumbnail size pics you normally get). You can subscribe to several regular e-mail subscriptions and RSS feeds, which seem to come at you at about 9:45AM (in the UK anyway ). I particular like the Arts section and their roundup of all the news for the week that is posted every Sunday.

The main site is:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/

There is a news in pictures section here:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=1513

And a picture of the day section here (with a link to the archives):
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=6934

Music reviews are here:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=4&subID=1452

Plus a good round-up of the Sunday papers is here, erm, every Sunday :
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=0&subID=7

You can find all these links easily from the main site and there is even a photography page here.