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Great digital camera deal this, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S950 for only £75 from Dixons, £33 cheaper than the next best price; a whopping 30% saving. Happy snapping!

**Update - now cheaper!!** Going to take some good pics at the carnival this weekend with this bargain Samsung ES-55 digital camera, down to £69 at Pixmania - £11 less than the next price! **Update** This just got cheaper with the CDiscount voucher code!  Now £64 + £2 delivery!  Copy and paste the code 20CAMERA into the field “Voucher code” on CDiscount’s checkout page and get 20% off.   This voucher is valid until Mon 31 August 2009- happy snapping!

Take a quality photo this Sunday with this outstanding deal on a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD, £165 at Pixmania, that’s 25% off, and with a 2 year warranty!

Seems cameras are all about the bells and whistles at the moment. We’ve had Nikon’s S1000pj with a built-in projector, 3D images from Fujifilm’s W1, and now we’ve got Samsung’s ST500 and ST550 (known as the TL220 and TL225 in some territories), which have… screens on the front. To make it easier to take pictures of yourself for your Facebook profile, I guess?

For self-portraits, point it towards your mug and tap the screen. They’re also dipping a toe into the waters of automatic geotagging with the ST1000’s built-in GPS receiver (it’s packed with loads of other fancy tricks, like transmitting photos over a wireless network, too).

No sign of a camera that can make crisp sandwiches yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

Vital Stats

ST500 & ST550 (aka TL220 & TL225): 12.2 megapixels, 1.5-inch screen on the front, 3-inch (ST500) or 3.5-inch (ST550) screen on the back, 4.6x optical zoom, HD Video.

ST1000 (aka CL65): 12.2 megapixels, 3.5-inch screen, 5x zoom, GPS, wireless access, Bluetooth, HD Video.

All 3 will be available from September.

At Reevoo we’re about more than just reviews. We’re about the whole process of buying and enjoying something cool and new. With that in mind the three resident Category Managers, Jo, Sam and Jon have taken some time to lay out some helpful tips across three different product categories.

Reevoo Washing Machine Buyers Guide

Jo’s Washing Machine guide should help get you out of a spin and into the right shopping cycle with her top 5 tips designed to help you decide which washing machine is the right purchase for you.

For a full guide of the 5 tips, just click play below or check the video out as you shop on the Reevoo washing machine category page itself.

The Tips:

- Plumbing
- Dimensions, Loading and Appearance
- Capacity
- Usage
- Additional Features

The Video:

In the busy and sometimes confusing market of MP3 players Sam’s Top 5 purchasing Tips should be music to your ears:

The Tips:

- How Will I Use It?
- How Much Storage Do I Need?
- Do I Want To Watch Video?
- Watch Out For Battery Life
- Is An iPod the Best Option?

The Video:

For a full, step by step walkthrough of the above tips check out the video below or on the MP3 Player category page on Reevoo.com

Jon’s camera guide walks you through the features and settings that come into play when taking a photograph. The guide should help you decide what type of camera you want to snap up!

The Tips:

- The Sensor
- ISO Settings
- Megapixels
- Aperture
- Shutter Speed
- Exposure

The Video:

As with the other guides Jon’s can be seen on the Digital Camera Category page whilst looking through the compact and SLR camera reviews on Reevoo. If you don’t want to go anywhere just hit play below!

Casio has decided that we all need a bit of big screen love in our cameras so their new EXILIM EX-Z150 comes with a whopping three inch LCD display. Pretty out of the ordinary for a low-end model. But if you thought the huge screen would create a clumpy camera, you’d be wrong - it’s only 20.1-mm, tapering down to 18.9-mm and it’s slim and stylish exterior comes in silver, black, red, pink and bright green.

To add to the goodies, they’ve also packed in:
- 8.1 megapixels
- 4x optical zoom
- CCD-shift image stabilisation
- 28-mm wide angle lens
- 17.9MB built in memory
- face detection function

If that wasn’t enough, you can use SDHCs, SDs, MultiMediacards and MultiMediaCardplus memory cards. There’s also ‘YouTube mode’ which is a setting that will give you 640 x 480 quality at 30fps (frames per second) for up to 10 minutes at a time.

We’re not sure when the EXILIM EX-Z150 will be available, or how much it will be but we’ll let you know when we do.

If you want to look through other Casio reviews, you can read them all here.

[Far East Gizmos]