Sentence examples for compact point from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, film-camera-makers sold compact "point and shoot" cameras to the mass market, and fancier "single-lens reflex" (SLR) cameras, with interchangeable lenses, to both enthusiasts and professionals.

The Olympus TG-2 is a simple, compact point and shoot that is clad in a hard plastic case.

Today, Samsung release a whole slew of new cameras, like this one, the new ST6500, a 16-megapixel compact point and shoot.

But the limitation still means trouble, especially on the microscopic sensors being deployed to camera phones and compact point and shoots.

Lagrangian flux through a fixed curve segment within a time interval (tn,tn+k) can be formulated as an integral at the initial time tn over a compact point set called donating region, in which each particle will pass through the curve during the time interval and contribute to the flux.

The present study explores the possibility of using a diagnostic algorithm developed based on PCA to distinguish normal/healthy from hyperplastic and dysplastic tissue of DR spectra recorded by means of a compact point monitoring system with white-light illumination.

Compact point-and-shoot digital cameras tend to be more portable than powerful.

"Once you get beyond seven or eight megapixels in a compact point-and-shoot camera, the small lenses are struggling to keep up," Mr. Askey said.

FOR several years, camera makers have trained their engineering expertise on the sweet spot between compact point-and-shoot cameras and chunky (yet capable) D.S.L.R.'s.

Just consider Alex Majoli, an award-winning Magnum photographer, who is known for shooting images of war and other dramatic scenes for publications like National Geographic and Newsweek — with compact point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Both companies are unveiling digital single-lens-reflex cameras aimed squarely at the mass market — in particular, people moving up from compact point-and-shoot models in search of better pictures.