The Lumix LX3 has long been on everyone’s wish list. It combines a compact body, bright f2.0 lens and a decent range of expert features in a consumer form factor. They had a lock on the market until the Canon S90 and Samsung TL500 came (and to a certain extent the Canon SD4000IS I have now).

The LX5 is the updated version of this camera and was leaked on Panasonic’s own customer support pages. It gains a longer lens (24-90mm), up to 12,800 ISO and still sports the Leica lens.

Among other things, Steve Jobs announced that Canada is getting the iPhone on July 30.

I don’t know what happened, but in the past year, the number of mistakes in the Toronto Star has jumped dramatically. Today’s iPhone article had the wrong image (not the iPhone 4) and some bad mistakes in the text.

This image is of the iPhone 2G, not the iPhone 4

A line of text was duplicated in the article

Laptop Magazine just released comparisons of laptop technical support across many companies. The highest grade went to Apple followed by HP and Lenovo. Last place went to Acer and the other companies landed in between.

Depreciation has put the insanely priced $96,000 Audi RS4 within the reach of someone that is shopping for the new 2010 Audi S4. If it was my choice, I would pick the new S4. The video below from the Smoking Tire goes over the highs and lows of both cars:

This article from Tested goes over the options for your first SLR lens. My recommendation for a Nikon is the 35mm f1.8. For Canon, the 50mm f1.8.

Sure, it’s odd to recommend a lens that has no zoom capabilities, but both of these lenses will give you sharp, crisp images and extend the capabilities to shoot in low light.

You can text the TTC (898882 or TXTTTC) with a streetcar stop number and it will text you back with the arrival time of the next streetcar.

While browsing info about Sony’s new point-and-shoot cameras, I noticed that many of them offer a “gourmet” shooting mode. Shooting modes are “shortcuts” for an arrangement of features on a camera to make them easier to use. Use “portrait” for shooting people and it will try to shoot with shallow depth-of-field and natural skin tones, use landscape for sharp focus over the entire field of view.

The “gourmet” mode I never heard before. It’s been available on Sony’s for some time. Here is the description from Sony:

Gourmet Mode lets you capture mouth-watering culinary creations with all the color and clarity of images you see in gourmet magazines.

This gallery shows off some impressive shots with shallow depth-of-field. This effect is primarily achieved with lenses with large apertures – f1.4 and f1.8 normal lenses. If you have a 50mm 0r 35mm normal lens, take advantage of it and start shooting with aperture priority.