I got this camera as a replacement for my old one as a graduation gift. It wasn't the most expensive, nor was it the cheapest, at the time i think it was about £80. It has quite a lot of features to offer, 8.2 mega pixels, face detection, different scenes choices such as self portrait, flowers, museum, fireworks etc, lengthy video capture with sound, a retouch application, various flashes, timer, automatic pictures, iso and the chance to save your favourites. Another handy feature is the ability to protect pictures and videos if you want to create some space and delete stuff without deleting images you may want to keep to print out etc. The zoom is a 3x optical although it seems to go into more detail then that. I have to say the zoom on this one far outweighs my old model (but it was three years old lol). However now onto its downsides, sometimes the pictures just come out pretty blurry or too dark etc, and you often find this is because you have it on the wrong picture setting. It's quite frustrating when you take a picture and you find out it didn't come out very well. Especially in cases where you don't have the chance to take it again. Personally this happened to me when I went to a film premiere of Fast and the Furious, and of course i wanted to take pictures of the stars of the film in the cinema. Only they came out absloutely awful, really dark and barely viewable. There obviously wasn't a cinema option on there and i'm not sure if they would have come out better on night landscape, maybe so but i didn't get the chance to find out! The only other thing is when you're taking pictures of fireworks they don't really look like fireworks, I've seen pictures from people of fireworks on other cameras and guess what they look exactly like they're supposed to not like spots of colour in the sky. Other then that the camera is fairly decent for the money you pay for it, 7/10.
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Mar 23rd, 2009
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