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2.0 stars
"OK camera, but would not buy again"
Pros: 10x optical zoom, pretty good super-macro
Cons: very noisy pictures, slow, lousy video
Summary: My father bought this camera without consulting me, I'm not a pro but i know a thing or two about cameras. I would not buy this camera again, it is generally ok, but there are few very important things which I believe this camera fails to deliver, so i believe that there are some better options in this price range.
First of all - noise. There's lot of it, even at the lowest ISO value (50) the pictures turn out pretty grainy. I rarely put ISO above that value cause when you do, the pictures are basically unusable. I believe you can see what are the limitations to this.
Then, pictures generally lack sharpness, so i almost always have to sharpen them on the PC.
This camera is pretty slow at continuos shooting, forget about "burst" or something like that, it takes forever for this camera to take two or three consecutive shots. And when shooting in RAW mode a beautiful dusk could become a dawn while you take two consecutive pictures.
The LCD screen on the back does not do a true representation of what the image will look like on a bigger screen or when printed in that way that most pictures look brighter on the camera screen than when printed/looked on PC (and i've watched them on CRTs, LCDs and Plasmas)
Video recording is really bad IMO, especially the sound in the videos. I know, this is not a dictaphone, but I would expect it to record better videos with sound than my Nokia cellphone (which it doesn't). Noise reduction works badly so i leave it off all the time.
Enough of the bad things - I really like that you can use rechargeable AA batteries and they last pretty long, I can generally take between 800-1000 pictures without recharging the batteries, which i think is really good. I love the 10x zoom and super-macro, they work really well. The menus are really simple and so is the mode selection (M, P, A/S etc.), i mostly shoot in the "M" mode.
I'm not comparing this camera to a Canon DSLR, but i've seen pictures with some other cameras in this price range and i highly prefer those.
