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Svelte snapshot with folded optics and touch screen If you’re going to include a touch screen on a compact, you’d better make it a large one. Fortunately the 14.1MP FP3 features a three-inch screen to improve operability and avoid accusations of gimmickry. For those who find such screens fiddly and obtuse at times, it also includes dedicated function buttons. Otherwise the flat fascia of the camera, internally folded 4x optical zoom mechanism equivalent to a 35-140mm focal range, plus slide-open-and-shoot lens cover recall competin

Create your own Panorama

Some vistas are so beautifully expansive that a single shot with a wide-angle lens just won’t do it justice. Panoramas allow you to push the boundaries of the frame, leaving the photographer no longer restricted by how wide angle

Shooting fashion with the Leica X1

Yet again I have the priviledge of testing another beautifully engineered Leica this month: this time it's the small-but-perfectly formed X1. It looks and handles just like a miniaturised M9, with all of the controls you need right at your fingert

Take This Shot: Landscapes

We’re lucky enough to have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world in the UK, but taking great landscape shots that capture the beauty of a location isn’t often easy: as with most things in life, practice makes perfect. Mak