Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

Peer into the future, without the crystal ball

We kicked off 2012 by visiting not-so-beautiful Las Vegas to attend CES, with the hope of getting a head start on the exciting new products that will launch over the coming year. While we’ll continue to highlight gadgets revealed there on a regular basis, one of the best parts about being on the ground at [...]

Officially drool worthy

Fujifilm’s X-Pro 1 may be the worst kept secret we’ve ever come across in the photography world — with a veritable Wikileaks worth of details flooding the web long before today’s official announcement. We’re still pleased as punch, however, to finally shell out the official details surrounding the magnesium-alloy wrapped retro beauty. In many ways, [...]

The new fixed lens king?

Canon’s PowerShot G-series has always strived to meld the smaller form factor of a point and shoot with the photo quality of a larger-sensor DSLR, and with the new Canon G1 X ($799), Canon continues to aim to do just that. Building on its predecessor’s, the G12, precedents the G1 X boasts a substantial 1.5-inch [...]

PowerUp

The Canon PowerShot series of point-and-shoot digital cameras has been running strong for fifteen years. Why stop now? That’s Canon’s thinking, as evidenced by their latest release, the Canon PowerShot S100 ($430). On top of its compactness and versatility, the S100 boasts a new f/2.0 lens and the newly improved HS System, a high level [...]

2,251,799,813,685,248 Configurations… And Counting We’ve featured cameras like the Nikon D90 (which Gear Patrol uses for our photography), and undoubtedly you’ve heard of the Canon 5D Mark II, which both allow you to shoot high definition video. That’s nice and all, but the mad scientists at RED want you to be humbled in the presence [...]

Your active lifestyle necessitates rugged gear. What you use to capture those moments shouldn’t be any different. The Ricoh G600 isn’t a product widely available here in the states. As a matter of fact, any one that you find is most likely a gray market product, but that doesn’t lessen it’s capabilities. The G600 is [...]

This digital camera features the Casio EXILIM Engine 2.0, making it easy to capture focused shots of moving subjects. Dual image stabilization provides smooth stills and video, even at high zoom settings. Oh, and the black is exclusive to Best Buy. Features: 7.2-megapixel CCD captures high-resolution images up to 3072 x 2304 pixels 7x optical/4x [...]

Canon looked to the original ELPH for inspiration when designing the PowerShot SD1000 Digital ELPH, and came up with a quintessential iteration of the icon: slim, clean-lined and fully flat. Features: 7.1 megapixels 3x optical zoom Advanced DIGIC III Automatic red-eye is correction 2.5″ LCD True-Color Screen – Specially coated for extra-durability. What this means [...]