Toshiba PDR T10

I first spotted this camera being advertised on www.ebay.com in the UK for about £100. Now, knowing that shops like Jessops sell these things for around £199, I didn't want to be getting stuck with an old dud.

The camera is small, a mere 85.5mm x 72mm x 27.9mm, or 3.5in x 2.75in x 1in, and is very light (approx 120 grammes, or around 4 oz), so is no problem for carrying about. It takes an SD memory card, although will NOT work with ...
...when reading the small print after buying an SD multimedia card). It came with an 8mb memory card, which you can use to take up to 51 low-quality pics. With a 64mb card (I got mine from the shops that used to be Time computers for £29.95 - bargain), you can get 64 high quality pics, and up to 460 low quality ones. It has approximately 2.01m pixels, so is much better than the standard cheap 1.3m pixel cameras at the bottom end of the market.
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I first spotted this camera being advertised on www.ebay.com in the UK for about £100. Now, knowing that shops like Jessops sell these things for around £199, I didn't want to be getting stuck with an old dud.

The camera is small, a mere 85.5mm x 72mm x 27.9mm, or 3.5in x 2.75in x 1in, and is very light (approx 120 grammes, or around 4 oz), so is no problem for carrying about. It takes an SD memory card, although will NOT work with a multimedia SD card (as I found to my cost when reading the small print after buying an SD multimedia card). It came with an 8mb memory card, which you can use to take up to 51 low-quality pics. With a 64mb card (I got mine from the shops that used to be Time computers for £29.95 - bargain), you can get 64 high quality pics, and up to 460 low quality ones. It has approximately 2.01m pixels, so is much better than the standard cheap 1.3m pixel cameras at the bottom end of the market.

The LCD screen on the back is approx 5cm x 3.5cm, which is so you can change the settings, see the picture, and view the ones you have taken and saved to the memory card. It also comes with a little pen for touching the screen to use the options on "touch-screen" facility to save you leaving dirty fingermarks on the screen. On the downside, the pen does look like a suppository!

The camera has 4x digital zoom for a close up on those far away items, or to close in on a picture. It takes either CR-V3 lithium batteries, or at a push, AA batteries (lithium are best) at between £5 and £7 a throw.

Flash can be set to manual (suppressed, forced, slow sync, red eye forced flash, or auto red eye reduction) or automatics, and layouts are automatic or manual and include settings for macro, portrait, landscape, sports and night. There is a self-timer facility. There is white balance, and you can choose colour, black and white or sepia photos. There is ISO sensitivity, so you feel as though you are working with a real camera, and can choose ISO 100, 200 or 400 for those faster shots. There is also a button to change the exposure.

The pictures can be downloaded via the cable and software provided, to a PC for editing, and can be viewed in up to 1600x1200 pixels in high quality, standard is the same (default setting) and economy setting is 800x600.

The camera also has a removable face-plate, and new ones can be bought from the manufacturer at a small price, via the website, to co-ordinate with your outfits!

Although the instructions manual is very thick, it does contain several different languages, and the English section covers the first 57 or so pages with easy reference to the bits you will need.

It comes in a nice ivory coloured fake-fur pouch with drawstring, which, while nice for the ladies, I can't see many men wanting to use it!

All in all, a nice bit of camera for the price.

 

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