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5 Feb 21st, 2002 

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Advantages:
Small and easy to use

Disadvantages:
Undistinctive design

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

Picture Quality

Range & Quality of Features

Ease of Use

Durability

Overall Look & Design

Value for Money

monk13i

monk13i

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I'm a student who's currently studying chemistry at UMIST in manchester.

Member since:30.03.2001

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I was given this camera as a gift for chirstmas. It was well recieved even though I had never thought about buying a digital camera for myself. The packaging was appealing and to the point. It gave the relevant information on the camera without overloading you with the hype that is just plain annoying.
There are several modes of operation a brief description of each is given below:

Standard picture:
This is the default mode for the camera. Using this setting the camera can capture and store 128 pictures the manual says are "web quality". This is the type of photo that is taken most often by me as the size of the file when transfered to the computer is good without any noticeable decrease in image quality

High quality picture:
The camera stores 64 pictures of this quality which is more than enough for what I have ever needed. The pictures when transferred to a pc are of standard photo size ( like when you develop traditional camera film ).

Timed high quality:
This is exactly what it says, a timed high quality picture. You set up your picture and press the shutter button. The camera waits 10 seconds and then takes a picture. Although I haven't used this method it is well set up for it. The camera emits a noise that can easily be heard from a distance that gets progressivly faster as the timer counts down.

Action shots:
In this mode the camera will take 5 pictures almost instaneously which the manual claims is great for action shots. When I've used this I've thought the pictures were taken too close together resulting in 5 almost identical pictures.

Movie:
This is were the camera comes into its own. The camera can capture live video at a 30 frames per second rate. This is a very usefull feature that can capture 6, 10 second long clips of video. The file size of these videos is reasonable and the quality, although not that of specialist video cameras, is much more than expected.

Each of these modes is accesed from a simple mode button on top of the camera that skips through each with ease. Displaying the current mode and number of picture taken on the built in LCD screen on top.

I could go into the details of the hardware in the camera such as the type of CCD (charge couple device) inside but thats not neccesary. The camera connects to a standard pc using a using connecter with a free cable easily long enough. Installation is easy with autorunning software thats basically sets itself up.

The only part of this camera that isn't up to par is the design. The camera is small which is usefull but it is a boring standard black design which just looks ugly.

Overall a very good quality camera for a price tag of under £100

Definatly worth the money if you want a cheap feature filled camera 

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flashpointz 21.02.2002 19:41

This is a pretty basic camera - cheap and cheerful. Not much in terms of quality (low spec definately) as you'd find out if you try printing any of even the 'high quality' pics out onto paper. Fine for a bit of fun - much like a Polaroid - but not much more than that - hence the cheap price, of course.

BadBoy 21.02.2002 19:30

great op! , veru interesting too, keep it up .. jmk1

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