CameraLabs is a website devoted to "unbiased testing to help you buy the ideal camera" (quote from the webpage).
It specializes in tests of digital cameras ranging from compacts to digital DSLRs.
The site relatively new site is already famous for several reasons:<br />
- Lenses are tested thoroughly under studio-conditions with charts for resolution, noise, chromatic aberrations / purple fringing, corner sharpness, geometry, macro and uniformity. The test are comparable across the range of lenses tested.<br />
- The most important findings are illustrated with real life outdoor pictures that can be compared across various tests<br />
- Cameras are thoroughly investigated with respect to design and features<br />
- For many test object there are video tours to show the camera (or lens) in action and explain the most important pros and cons. This is a first with international photographic review sites and is highly appreciated by readers of the site<br />
The owner, Gordon Laing, set up this site in December 2005. He is a British technology writer and former Editor of Personal Computer World magazine in the UK. Gordon is a Personal Computer World columnist, Technical Editor of DSLR User, and regular contributor to Active Home, MacUser, T3 and Computeractive magazines in the UK. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Kent, has been a photographer for over two decades and reviewed digital cameras since the Apple QuickTake 100 back in 1995. His first book, Digital Retro, an illustrated history of home computers in the 80s, was published in October 2004 by Ilex Press and Sybex Books. <br />
The site is operated from Queenstown, New Zealand.<br />
The webpage is here[2089]<br />