Well, no matter -- we're about to see a trio of compacts added to the mix.
Samsung's main camera plant in China is being converted to produce high-end mirrorless cameras instead of cheaper compacts.
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It can shoot 720p video and offers the same Eco Mode bundled with all of Canon's 2013 compacts.
Hyundai, for instance, sold 202, 000 Elantra compacts last year, beating Buick by itself.
And now 14 additional nations are eligible to negotiate compacts with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, headed by Ambassador Danilovich.
Washington had hoped Fiat would give Chrysler religion on compacts, but instead it has been converted to American SUV and truck worship.
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Most are fuel-sipping compacts or subcompacts, like the Chevrolet Cruze, hitting dealerships now, or the overhauled Ford Focus, which goes on sale early next year.
It has done quite well in overseas markets, especially in China, where GM compacts such as Buick Excelle, Regal and Chevrolet Lova have surpassed competitors.
Indeed, immigration leaders in a dozen other states have since adopted similar compacts, encouraging elected leaders to adopt a reasonable approach to immigration reform in their own communities.
The index found a 12 percent improvement in new car fuel economy, which is reflective of wholesale abandonment of V-8-powered SUVs and trucks in favor of four-cylinder compacts.
In their bathroom, tubes of hair gel, hair spray bottles, flatirons, blow-dryers, brushes and makeup compacts battled for counter space, with bobby pin casualties scattered on the floor.
Running off any iPhone, iPad or iPod using iOS 5, the app uses a dongle which can be connected by cable or infrared to most DSLRs or advanced compacts.
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By the end of 2012, all of these additions faded from memory, overshadowed by more powerful ILCs, advanced compacts from Sony and the Samsung Galaxy Camera, respectively.
I'm afraid I think that people only make such compacts once they've exhausted all of the possible benefits they can see to violence, and I don't think we're there yet.
The issue of moral hazard is one that does not lend itself to being satisfied by these actions now that the compacts and budgets are in place, this risk is measurably less so.
Canon's primary motivation, at least from an official perspective, was to create a camera that serves to bridge the gap between pocketable compacts and full-size DSLRs with a simple user interface designed to educate, not intimidate.
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The autofocus is the standout here, however -- Olympus describes it as being on-par with its PEN Micro Four Thirds models, and as compacts go, it feels just about as speedy as Sony's RX100.
It can rely solely on compacts with the region's existing power-brokers, which often means conniving at, or even reinforcing, the corrupt practices by which they shore up their own authority and squash the emergence of rivals.
The 3's suspension with a proper multilink geometry in the back as compared with a torsion-beam rear axle remains composed under hard braking and cornering, and manages to quell big whoops from the road that would send other compacts into oscillating fits.
While that higher price point may seem off-putting, demand for mirrorless cameras is actually expected to explode by 60 percent this year, according to IDC projections -- while sales of compacts are retreating in the face of ever more powerful smartphone snappers.
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Just as we're trying to figure out how to cadge an EP-1 for our own greedy amusements, the company is back with a handful of budget compacts, which may lack a bit of "the sexy" but are obviously a touch more affordable.
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The signers of the Indiana Compact joined like-minded leaders in Utah and Iowa neither of which is a liberal stronghold who signed compacts of their own calling upon the administration and Congress to work together to create a common-sense immigration process.
The localization of these understandings in turn opens up a whole new set of options for Westerners and particularly for Israelis in seeking ways to contend with the region's pathologies that involve policies less sweeping than grand, yet futile designs of peace making, or fundamental restructuring of the social compacts of Arab societies.
Based on its size alone, Samsung clearly isn't targeting the entire gamut of photographers with its first Android model, but it's still far more than a proof of concept -- it'll ship, but it will be expensive, and while it's not likely to fit in your pocket, this camera is but the first in a long line of compacts to come.
Shortly after we caught wind of Android "consideration" within Samsung's camera division, a report surfaced that implied a change in course for the Galaxy giant -- the Korean company was ramping up mirrorless camera production at the cost of scaling back point-and-shoots, and the move appeared to represent a general shift away from compacts with a heavier focus on improving optics in smartphones.
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