I bought it on December 2007 and I have used it ever since. It takes great quality photos with 8.1 Mega Pixels and saves them onto a memory stick. When you turn it on it asks you to set the date and time. After that it is ready to take pictures. In the Auto setting the photos look fantastic, the colour is rich and it is sharp. The shutter button has 2 stages, press it halfway and it auto-focuses then press it fully to take the picture. It shoots close obects too with the near-shot setting. In scene mode you choose different scene settings that go with your situation, they are great but I'd rather just leave it on Auto. The video mode is good, it takes average VGA quality videos (640x480) or you can set it to take 320x240 pixels to save space. They both are 3gp quicktime files so you can't edit them so easily. The camera has a microphone to record sound but when you play them on the camera, the camera doesn't have a speaker so you have to put them onto a computer to hear the sound. A red LED on the front flashes when recording. After taking photos a little hand icon in the corner tells you whether it is blurred or not which is great because you can't really tell when you are vewing it on the camera's screen. Like a traffic light, green means good, amber means slightly blurred and red means very blurred. The pictures are more blurred if you turn the flash off. The flash has an anti red-eye mode to prevent red-eye shots. The optical zoom is average, onlly zooming 3 times. There is extra digital zoom but the more you zoom in the more blurred the picture gets. The internal memory is only 14 MB.
Using the Easyshare software is a nightmare, it is not easy! They take ages to load, edit and save. Strangely they save the pictures twice and in lots of folders too. I would strongly recommend buying an SD card reader and just copy and paste the photos to your My Pictures folder, much easier!
Overall it is a cheap, stylish, compact camera that produces some excellent photos. The downsides are that the optical zoom is limited, the Easyshare software is horrible and the battery life is average. It is not long before your ordinary AA batteries run out. I would recommend buying Lithium AA batteries, they last for ages!
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Advantages: it has a wide range of different features and the picture quality is not bad. Disadvantages: the camera can eat battery quite fast as well as the fact it sometimes freeze with the lens open
Advantages: it has a wide range of different features and the picture quality is not bad. Disadvantages: the camera can eat battery quite fast as well as the fact it sometimes freeze with the lens open
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