Rory Witham
New member
I purchased this camera for my 3 year old, as she wanted to have a camera like mine. Mine are the Nikon D70 and D50 and S3 pro, so there was no chance she was getting one of these. I Often regret having large DSLR’s as that can be bulky and don’t fit in your pocket to name one thing. My other half wanted a pocket camera as well so it would seam like a good idea.
I purchased the camera for £46.00 and I expected the camera to be pretty good and have some of the features of the Nikon larger cameras. Yet I wanted a camera that a 3-year could use.
As a point and shoot the camera has a bit of weight to it and its pretty sturdy but Its not been dropped yet!
The camera is sold as a 5MP camera but it’s a lot closer to 4.9MP than 5. with a size of 8.5X6.4 inches for the negative image size leaving it a little off with 10x 8 print sizes.
The image quality is good for a camera of this price as I test under low light the ISO 800 that this camera uses is very noisy, It was gone in a flash in CS2 so its not really that much of an issue and for normal users acceptable. There are some Jpg artefacts in the image once you play with the image a little, but for many it will not matter.
The usability of the camera is pretty simple, there are no manual settings but there is choice. The camera has a selection setting for 16 image/scene types and has a handy panorama setting to knit the images together. The remainder are straight forwards as long as the correct mode is set.
Video is OK but basic, fuji cameras video function like the 9500 is much better.. it is a camera not a video camera!
Overall the camera is good, it’s not slow like many cameras in this price range and the flash is balanced giving you good images. This camera would be suitable for beginners as it’s not complex and is of a good quality. The images are suitable in quality as well.
This camera review is based on the use of domestic cameras such as the Olympus 330, the Fuji 3500 and the vivitar 3510 cameras all fall short of this camera.
With respect of my cameras, the camera is pretty good for what it is; it’s NOT a SLR so it cannot be compared to a quality SLR camera.
To chart the cameras mentioned on a chart of ten:
S3 being 9 Vivitar being 1, 3500 and the 330 being 2, The D50 is an 8. The D70 a 7 the L10 comes in at a respectable 5.
Problems:
Just advice, the USB port on the camera in not the 'normal' type as used on many other cameras, may be worth considering if you are buying used with out the USB lead.
I purchased the camera for £46.00 and I expected the camera to be pretty good and have some of the features of the Nikon larger cameras. Yet I wanted a camera that a 3-year could use.
As a point and shoot the camera has a bit of weight to it and its pretty sturdy but Its not been dropped yet!
The camera is sold as a 5MP camera but it’s a lot closer to 4.9MP than 5. with a size of 8.5X6.4 inches for the negative image size leaving it a little off with 10x 8 print sizes.
The image quality is good for a camera of this price as I test under low light the ISO 800 that this camera uses is very noisy, It was gone in a flash in CS2 so its not really that much of an issue and for normal users acceptable. There are some Jpg artefacts in the image once you play with the image a little, but for many it will not matter.
The usability of the camera is pretty simple, there are no manual settings but there is choice. The camera has a selection setting for 16 image/scene types and has a handy panorama setting to knit the images together. The remainder are straight forwards as long as the correct mode is set.
Video is OK but basic, fuji cameras video function like the 9500 is much better.. it is a camera not a video camera!
Overall the camera is good, it’s not slow like many cameras in this price range and the flash is balanced giving you good images. This camera would be suitable for beginners as it’s not complex and is of a good quality. The images are suitable in quality as well.
This camera review is based on the use of domestic cameras such as the Olympus 330, the Fuji 3500 and the vivitar 3510 cameras all fall short of this camera.
With respect of my cameras, the camera is pretty good for what it is; it’s NOT a SLR so it cannot be compared to a quality SLR camera.
To chart the cameras mentioned on a chart of ten:
S3 being 9 Vivitar being 1, 3500 and the 330 being 2, The D50 is an 8. The D70 a 7 the L10 comes in at a respectable 5.
Problems:
Just advice, the USB port on the camera in not the 'normal' type as used on many other cameras, may be worth considering if you are buying used with out the USB lead.