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Average rating:
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| Announced: | Jul 28, 2005 |
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Average rating:
4.47
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Opinion: Really inpressed with the natural light mode.
Images are good, camera shoots quickly almost instantly. Like the fact it uses and comes with 2 rachargeable AA batteries, but don't like the fact that you have to open the battery compartment to put the xD card in. People have mentioned that the construction appears cheap. I disagree, I don't find it cheap and don't mind the black plastic body, the camera is very light without the batteries installed, but with the batteries in it seems much heavier than it appears it should.
Problems: None so far
Opinion: Solid build. Fast. Great menu system with an array of manual control features. Pictures look very good on monitor, even cropped. I think the LCD could use higher res., but that could be subjective. I just received it on 11.02.05, so more action time it shall receive. As for value, that is subjective too, however, from what I have seen, it is worth it - for I am impressed.
Problems: None as of two days.
Opinion: Received camera 10/31/05 First imprssion: Fast, very functional, very ergonomic. The controls just fall under your hand in the right place. Once I get my power back, I'll be able to upload and print. Love those AA batteries. Because of hurricane related power failure I was forced to use alkalines...always available and work well in a pinch!
Problems: None.
Opinion: the camera is full featured. it has all metering that one could wish for, bracketing, manual, program with program-shift, shutter and aperture priority, the usual amateur programs (sports, portrait, etc). all the usual AF varieties, even an (albeit cumbersome) manual focus, and a pretty ok zoom range. it does raw, like a pro camera. the resolution is mind-boggling for a camera of that size and price (i paid USD 340 for it). as expected from a superCCD camera, the noise is low, for a compact, that is. it's not as good as the F10, but still, all the range up to 800 is usable, in fact, 800 looks better than iso400 in most of the competition. so much for the good stuff.
Problems: now the bad: the first and worst: the in-camera software pushes contrast waaay too much, and there's no way of turning that 'feature' off. you have to apply curves in photoshop to correct it, with 8bit images (adobe camera raw won't read the raws from the camera), that's not a good thing to do. why would they offer a camera with advanced features, manual controls, and then cripple it with such a low-end holiday-snapshot 'feature'? it's plain dumb. i bet the superCCD would be capable of a lot more. i can only hope that adobe camera raw will get more out of the raws, once it's available. yes, the current plugin (3.2) doesn't read the raws of the E900. and while we're at it: the raws are HUGE, 18 megs each. the data from the twice as many receptors (normal and HDR) for each pixel has to go somewhere, i guess. the lens seems to do an ok job at handling the resolution, however, there's considerable purple fringing. no, actually, there's tons of purple fringing. branches of trees on a cloudy day are one big purple fringe. given that it's pretty high-end in terms of features, the camera feels rather cheap. plastic, plastic, plastic. given the price, however, you can't complain. the camera is really amazingly affordable.
and, yes, bottom line: despite all the complaining, it's an amazing value for the money. great resolution, tons of semipro features, in a pretty compact package - you'd normally expect to pay quite a bit more for that.
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