Advantages: Picture quality, easy handling, great lens Disadvantages: See review
...on. As it happens, the HP 850 is not universally admired by photography buffs, partly, I suspect, because it isn't made by a 'proper' camera manufacturer, and partly because you can't override all the controls and force it to take really bad pictures.
However, to my mind, it offers exactly the right feature set, which is a well thought-out middle path between point-and-shoot and manual override of everything, which is only important if the automatic ... ...hot sellers nowadays...
HP have also very sensibly gone to a camera maker (Fuji) for the lens, while they have applied their own expertise to the rest of the camera. The result is that the menus are very clear and intuitive, and almost any of them can be interrupted to shoot a picture simply by pressing the shutter button. The download software is equally straightforward and has the best red-eye removal tool I have seen.
The camera isn't perfect, ...
boswelox 25.01.2004
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Advantages: 8 x Optical Zoom, Good battery life, 4 megapixel, Easy to use, 60 second video capture Disadvantages: Too bulky for some, adapter needed for optional filters, looks a little plastic-y
I bought this camera as an upgrade from a Kodak DX3700 which I thought at teh time produced good results. Main reason for the upgrade was lack of zoom and focus on the Kodak. Having used this quite extensively I can not believe how much better the quality of the pictures are.
It has a few advanced options if you are brave enough to experiment, for example you can set the shutter speed and the camera will choose the exposure or vice versa (You can ... ...lots of steps inbetween).
There are 3 different quality setting with the lowest compression producing 1.8Mb file sizes.
The zoom is mighty impressive with an 8 x Optical and after that the digital zoom kicks in and as it digitally zooms it displays how much the quality is suffering (i.e. It drops from 4 megapixel down to just below 1 megapixel quality but that is very very zoomed in.
It has a self timer which is handy and can also record up to ...
brizzle 18.05.2003
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Advantages: The picture quality of this camera (using "auto" setting and *** picture quality) is as good as I have seen from any 4mp camera.The camera becomes very easy to use after a short learning period. Disadvantages: The camera isn't as compact as some (because of its excellent 8x zoom optical system
...across the market,I believe rigorously, before obtainaing an example of the camera. I have no regrets
7. There is a very active discussion group on Yahoo groups containing much relevant information and tales of woe or delight re the HP 850
Happy snapping
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monami 17.07.2003
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