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for the money it is good, but there are a few problems. probably the worst is the auto-focus. When taking photographs of anything small, no matter what you do, it will not focus on what is in the... more

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  • 59 of 59 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    thebigc1690

    3 Stars ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Review with images 26/02/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good features and functions and of course a long zoom.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Poor image qulaity at high zoom and terrible battery life amongst others.

    Today there are basically three types of camera selling regularly, those are the compact digital, the bridge camera and the DSLR. A compact digital being the hand held point and shoot that almost everyone has these days, a bridge camera being a camera that looks like a DSLR and has many of the functions but has a fixed lens and a DSLR being the professional type camera that you can change lenses on, add flash units to and adjust every setting known to man manually. There is however now a fourth type of camera becoming more and more popular and they are known as super zooms. For years now ... more
  • 0 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 pikejones

    Member since 17/03/2013

    Reviews written: 1

    3 Stars good for the money 17/03/2013

    Advantages Advantages size, zoom, cost

    Disadvantages Disadvantages image quality at maximum zoom, file format, close up focus

    for the money it is good, but there are a few problems. probably the worst is the auto-focus. When taking photographs of anything small, no matter what you do, it will not focus on what is in the middle of the lens e.g. flowers, insects. It also has a habit of focussing on any dust specks on the inside of the lens - which I can not get out. As in the review above, the quality is lousy at maximum zoom, as the lense splits the image into seperate colours, giving objects a yellow aura. Good points are image stabilisation, size compared to the zoom, ease of use for midrange objects. If the ... more

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Product Details

Product type Digital Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital camera - compact
Optical Sensor / Sensor Resolution 12
Viewfinder / Viewfinder Type Electronic Viewfinder
Flash Memory / Form Factor XD-Picture Card
Lens System / Optical Zoom 26x

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