I've used the 2100 for 12 months now, maybe 1000 photo's in that time, and have developed a real affection for it.
Beautifully balanced, easy to hold and operate, tactile controls, super-smooth zoom mechanics and an incredible continuous shooting mode (thus UZI?) that's barely matched by even the most sophisticated of today's prosumer cameras. Fast, pin-sharp, rarely fooled autofocus; neutral saturation (cf Fujifilm); no shutter lag to speak of; sound AF assist lamp; powerful flash; very, very effective image stabilisation; first rate macro mode (zoom allowed)...anyway, these are the things I liked.
I've owned nine digital camera's in my time - Olypmus, Sony, Canon - some older than the 2100, some more up to date. I don't judge the 2100 as a camera of it's time - it's an alltime classic, with features and performance that still meet and exceed, in many respects, today's digi-cam benchmarks. My 2100 is a keeper until it dies.
Problems:
The C2100 doesn't like batteries that are low on power - despite showing them as well-charged it'll struggle to autofocus, and as a result it will misfocus, which gave me the impression that far more serious lens or lens stabilisation problems were occurring.
Movie mode, while visually good (320x240 @ 15 fps) is no use with internal microphone because it mostly captures the camera stabiliser noises.
Beautifully balanced, easy to hold and operate, tactile controls, super-smooth zoom mechanics and an incredible continuous shooting mode (thus UZI?) that's barely matched by even the most sophisticated of today's prosumer cameras. Fast, pin-sharp, rarely fooled autofocus; neutral saturation (cf Fujifilm); no shutter lag to speak of; sound AF assist lamp; powerful flash; very, very effective image stabilisation; first rate macro mode (zoom allowed)...anyway, these are the things I liked.
I've owned nine digital camera's in my time - Olypmus, Sony, Canon - some older than the 2100, some more up to date. I don't judge the 2100 as a camera of it's time - it's an alltime classic, with features and performance that still meet and exceed, in many respects, today's digi-cam benchmarks. My 2100 is a keeper until it dies.
Problems:
The C2100 doesn't like batteries that are low on power - despite showing them as well-charged it'll struggle to autofocus, and as a result it will misfocus, which gave me the impression that far more serious lens or lens stabilisation problems were occurring.
Movie mode, while visually good (320x240 @ 15 fps) is no use with internal microphone because it mostly captures the camera stabiliser noises.