Canon PowerShot G9 video review Video

Full review at: www.cameralabs.com : A ten minute tour around Canon's latest high-end compact, the PowerShot G9 by Gordon Laing, Editor of www.cameralabs.com. For complete results and sample images, please check out our full review by clicking the link at the start of this text.

The Nikon Cameras Review Sorts It All Out

There's a reason I want to share my Nikon cameras review: I love my Nikon and bring it with me wherever I go, capturing memories as I go along. The people I love, places I've been and special times I've experienced are all memorialized in photographs.

Receiving my first camera is a special memory in itself. I was 10 years old, and Santa brought me an "Instamatic". I was so thrilled to boast my own camera! Now I would be able to take my memories with me wherever my dad's work moved us. Understand, Dad was in the military so of course we didn't stay in one place long.

Growing up we moved around the country and even abroad for a bit, and I grew to be an avid picture-taker. There are shoeboxes filled with pictures of my family, standing beside well-known and unheard of landmarks throughout the country. After we moved to Europe, I discovered even more opportunities to take pictures -- I turned in to a real tourist.

My father is one of 6 siblings; his father is one of 13 and his mother had 9 siblings. My dad's first cousins alone numbered almost 100. All that family and the celebrations we experienced were great opportunities to snap photos. And all those snapshots of all those relations have come with me during each of my moves.

Then along came digital picture-taking and it appeared the sky was the limit. For one thing, I no longer had to send snapshots in an envelope if I wanted to share them. A few minutes on the computer and I could share my photographs with anyone I wished to. And who needs a darkroom any more? It was great to have loads of "special effects" at my fingertips from my laptop!

Life is different; I'm no longer a kid, travelling with my parents, but I have kids of my own. My snapshots are still all about documenting our memories, though. The memories are still of family vacations and growing kids, but now I'm the grown up. The milestones I capture now for a whole new set of family relations.

My "extended family" now includes folks that are in no way related to me by blood or marriage, but have formed such close ties that we feel like family. Photography is how I stay connected with my brood and all the people I love.

I have a friend who recently asked for my advice when buying a camera. It's difficult to choose a preferred camera after all my years of photography, but after completing a Nikon cameras review, my Nikon is the obvious choice. When I take into account the reminiscences it captures -- my life summed up in pictures -- that's a lot to live up to.