Digital Gadgets

Yeah, I know, printers just aren’t droolworthy. But let’s face it folks, most of is need them at some point and nobody wants to spend their hard-earned cash on one. So Canon decided to throw a nice, cheap one our way at CES. The PIXMA MP150 can copy, scan, and quickly print photos and text, and thank goodness only goes for $90. I’m lovin’ it.

Here’s to printing a borderless 4 x 6 inch photo in approximately 55 seconds—for under $100. The printer also includes a PictBridge port so anyone can print their photos without a computer from any PictBridge compatible digital camera or DV camcorder.

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The sturdy, solid, 8-megapixel PowerShot S80 is the update to the PowerShot S70, last year’s Editor’s Choice winner. The camera is pricey ($549.95 list), but most features are improved, and only a couple have been dropped. As such, the S80 becomes our Editor’s Choice for full-featured, compact digital cameras.

The S80 weighs just 7.9 ounces but comes loaded with features. The 3.6X optical, 5.8- to 20mm zoom lens (35mm equivalent: 28- to 100mm) has a maximum f/stop range of f/2.8 to f/5.3 across the zoom range. We love the 28mm wide-angle view (which the S70 also had)—it’s great for capturing large slices of an interior or outdoor landscape.

The flash worked pretty well in most situations, but sometimes missed the mark, either being too powerful or not powerful enough. Fortunately, you can change the settings to increase or decrease illumination. The S80 offers additional flash features, such as a second curtain strobe, which fires right before the shutter closes, instead of just after it opens. This can produce some really creative shots, where long streaks of light or sections of blurring add a sense of motion and movement to your stills.

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Canon’s EOS 350D/Rebel XT has been reviewed at Shutterbug and they write: “One drawback to the camera, and this being more from being spoiled by others, is the LCD display. In low light and shade the 1.8âPound Sterling ? 115,000 pixel screen is visible, but in sunlight the comparatively small screen is fairly unreadable due to surface reflection.

ItâPound Sterling ™s good that you can set many functions using the manual toggles and LCD panel rather than the monitor, as using the monitor for setting menus and reviewing images after exposure in any kind of direct sunlight is very difficult. Pushing the ISO setting toggle, for example, opens the ISO menu on the monitor, again difficult to see in bright light. The display does have helpful information, such as overexposure warnings in image review.”

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The Anglican Church of Canada has its first bishop of Asian descent – CanonPatrick Yu, the Hong Kong-born incumbent of St. Timothy’s Anglican church in Agincourt, Ont., who was elected suffragan bishop in the diocese of Toronto Jan. 7.

Bishop-elect Yu, 54, elected at St. James’ Cathedral in Toronto, will become the area bishop of York-Scarborough, east of Toronto, which has about 70 parishes. His consecration has been scheduled for March 25. The diocese has a total of four areas overseen by four suffragan bishops and a diocesan bishop.

“It’s a significant event, but I also believe that it is important for everyone in the church, particularly its leaders, to be able to go outside of their own cultural envelope and stand beside a person of another culture,” he said after the election. “I believe that having been an immigrant and an outsider may give me an advantage in doing that.”

More: anglicanjournal.com