Top 10 Mega Zoom Digital Camera Sales in US

Accordanc with dslrphoto.com, the top 10 mega zoom digital cameras are:

This Week		Camera Description		Price
1			Canon PowerShot SX260 HS 12.1 MP CMOS with 20x IS 25mm Wide-Angle Lens and 1080p Full-HD...	$199.00
2			Nikon COOLPIX P510 16.1 MP CMOS with 42x Zoom NIKKOR ED Glass Lens and GPS Record Location (Black)	$279.95
3			Canon PowerShot SX50 HS 12.1 MP with 50x Wide-Angle Optical IS	$399.00
4			Canon PowerShot SX500 IS 16.0 MP with 30x Wide-Angle Optical IS and 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)	$249.00
5			Fujifilm FinePix S4200	$164.00
6			Canon PowerShot SX150 IS 14.1 MP with 12x Wide-Angle Optical IS with 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)	$119.00
7			Canon PowerShot SX280 HS 12.1 MP CMOS with 20x IS 25mm Wide-Angle Lens and 1080p Full-HD...	$299.00
8			Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V 18.2 MP Exmor R CMOS with 30x Optical Zoom and 3.0-inch LCD (Black) (2012 Model)	$329.00
9			Nikon COOLPIX L810 16.1 MP with 26x Zoom NIKKOR ED Glass Lens and 3-inch LCD (Black)	$179.99
10			Canon PowerShot SX280 HS 12.1 MP CMOS with 20x IS 25mm Wide-Angle Lens and 1080p Full-HD

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with Micro Four Thirds Lens Mount Takes Film Like Video

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a true high dynamic range film look camera in an extremely portable size. You can shoot cinema quality in situations never before possible! Imagine shooting a documentary, episodic television production, television commercial or independent film in the true quality of digital film.  With its extremely compact size, you can covertly shoot important and historic events such as wars, protests and other conflict in cinema quality and get a more realistic record of the event. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a true revolution in how you can shoot digital 
cinema.

Regular video cameras shoot limited dynamic range, which is why their pictures look like video. But the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera delivers film look because it captures a super wide dynamic range of 13 stops, so your images look truly cinematic. This means you retain all sensor data for DaVinci Resolve color grading.  This premium quality design features a solid magnesium alloy chassis, an MFT mount for interchangeable optics, Super 16 size sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and high quality ProRes 422 (HQ) and lossless CinemaDNG RAW file formats! Every aspect of the image path has been totally optimized for quality.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera lets you use the most incredible range of lenses. With the Super 16 size sensor you can use a wide range of adapters for film quality Super 16 lenses, or use commonly available low cost Micro Four Thirds lenses.

The extremely high resolution 3.5” LCD allows you to monitor while shooting and review recorded files on the SD card.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

(Source: blackmagicdesign.com)

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Sony will make A-mount APS-C sensor mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera

Rumors circulated in the web that Sony will make A-mount (used by present SLT DSLR look alike camera) mirrorless interchangeable lens camera to replace the SLT camera.  Hence the a58 may be the last SLT model from Sony. (Source:sonyalpharumors)

Panasonic Lumix TZ40 / ZS30 20X Zoom Point and Shot Digital Camera with Leica Lens

Panasonic TZ40 (ZS30) was announced in January this year.  This is a new travel camera with 20X (24-480mm 35mm eqivalent) zoom lens for both photo and video. The new 18.1-megapixel High Sensitivity MOS sensor realizes both high quality image recording and high speed signal processing. This new sensor lets the DMC-ZS30(TZ40) shoot 10 fps* in 18.1-megapixel full resolution with mechanical shutter and 5 fps with continuous AF. With the industry’s first Creative Panorama, 12 filter effects make panorama images more impressive, and expand your expressive abilities. Built in Wifi and NFC (Near Field Communication) changes a smartphone / tablet into a remote controller for LUMIX by just touching the camera with the smartphone or tablet. The GPS (Global Positioning System) in DMC-ZS30(TZ40) newly complies with GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) to further enhance its detection accuracy for its increased number of satellites. The DMC-ZS30(TZ40) can record full HD 1,920 x 1,080 videos in AVCHD Progressive (MPEG-4 / H.264) format. Featuring 60p (NTSC) / 50p (PAL) full HD recording capability, subjects with fast motion or fine details are reproduced clearly.

Panasonic TZ40/ZS30 Digital Camera

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Fujifilm mega zoom 50X digital Camera SL1000

Fujifilm SL1000 was announced in January this year. This amazing mega zoom camera has the following features:

• 50x Optical Zoom(24mm-1200mm)* and Powerful Optical Image Stabilization
• 16M BSI-CMOS sensor supports for sensitivities as high as ISO 12800
• The high resolution, 1080i movie capture at 60fps  
• The FinePix SL1000 boasts a high-resolution (920K-dot) electronic viewfinder equipped with an eye sensor
• Tilting LCD monitor
• The FinePix SL1000 can be used to record RAW images
• Lens shift image stabilization
• 100x Intelligent Digital Zoom
• Continuous Shooting: 10fps at full resolution

Fujifilm SL1000 50X Mega Zoom Digital Camera

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Review (Source:photographyblog.com)

Recommended

Ratings (out of 5)
Design	4
Features	4.5
Ease-of-use	4
Image quality	4
Value for money	3.5

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