Get a grip!

This 24MP camera promises the ‘essentials’, but is it just playing second-best to its higher-end S1II sibling? Andy Westlake finds out

This affordable charger will top up four camera batteries at once, as Damien Demolder discovers

Neewer steps into the tube-shaped flash arena with a well-featured, battery-powered Q200 that brings the studio outdoors. Damien Demolder slips one into his camera bag to see if it’s as good as it looks

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

Finally, a camera that looks as good as the pictures it takes

Canon’s latest compact has a super-wideangle 16-50mm equivalent zoom lens that’s ideal for video, but also has some photography uses. Richard Sibley checks it out