Review: Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sony's NEX 7 ($ 1200) is easily the epitome of how far mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras have gone. This is a prosumer-oriented compact APS-C sensor camera that has a 24 megapixel sensor and 2.4M dot OLED electronic viewfinder into its magnesium alloy body and yet still finds room for a pop-up flash and Alpha hot shoe. We spent some time with a pre-production model (the NEX-7 is slated for an early 2012 release, pending production ramp up in flood-stricken Thailand). Here are our impressions of what Popular Photography magazine has chosen as Camera of the Year.

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London Drugs’ new Photolab Web Launch Integrates Social Media

London Drugs has launched a new Photolab Web site that allows you to login and access images from Facebook, Flickr, Google+ and Picasa social media accounts to create a variety of customized photo items.

http://www.londondrugs.com/photolab/order/chooseSource.aspx

“We’re giving our customers more meaningful ways to preserve memories from their digital photo albums on social media accounts. Customized photo items and hard cover photo books really bring captured moments to life and make for ideal gifts,” says Wynne Powell, president and CEO of London Drugs.  

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Apps & Launches: Flipboard comes to iPhone and iPod Touch

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the best news aggregation and reading apps on the iPad is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Flipboard elegantly aggregates various feeds, Facebook and Twitter streams as well as curated content and puts it in a stunningly presented and easy to navigate interface. On the iPad, users could scroll sideways just like a magazine but in the iPhone version they now thumb through the content which can be accessed with one hand thanks to the intuitive design. Go get it now!

Review: Kobo Vox Android enabled eReader

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

A coloured eBook Reader with tablet aspirations. This is the Kobo Vox, the most ambitious device released by Toronto-based Kobo whose earlier eBook reader devices, the Kobo Wireless eReader and the outstanding Kobo eReader Touch Edition were superb examples of the company's focus on quality, social reading and innovation. There is a lot weighing on the Kobo Vox's  shoulders, it is the company's first coloured eReader and also the first one to run a scaled back version of Google's Android OS. Here's our review.

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