kamilkloch
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Canon A95 is the second digital camera I own.
I am generally satisfied with the gear - it is extremely easy and intuitive to operate. A95 has almost all the functionality of the dream Nikon d70 (apart from rear curatin sync which I really do miss). I actually did buy A95 after long dreams about d70. But one day it came to me apparent that I simply can not afford a $1500 toy which wouldn't pay off being used for occassional shots.
Problems:
1. (mentioned in the dpreview review) the camera is ABSOLUTELY TOO SENSITIVE in high-contrast-bright-light situations! The sunny part of the photo gets very often way too bright. The results in the sunny day are worse than auto-exposure-3-year-old-sony-cybershot-photo. Too bad
2. (connected to 1. ) Ugly purple-blue fringing in high-contrast -sunny situations! Like in tiny mobile cameras.
3. The camera is virtually UNABLE TO FOCUS in dark light. The auto assist beam is too weak. Just try to enter make a photo of a absolutely dark room or zoom into something in a dimm light. No way you get the focus. My 3-year-old Sony P71 performs much better in those situations.
4. The playback function is too slow even on a high speed SanDisk CF.
5. No battery-low indicator - after you see the blinking battery icon the camera turns dead after few shots. It would be nice to know it with some advance.
Summing up, 1, 2, and 3 can be really annoying and dissapointing. I already missed many of those 3-second situations which I wanted to shoot because camera would not focus at all. Or shoot some photo of a darkish stret and later on see that everything in the background is ugly too bright.
Well, perhaps I wanted too much from a $300 gear...
I am generally satisfied with the gear - it is extremely easy and intuitive to operate. A95 has almost all the functionality of the dream Nikon d70 (apart from rear curatin sync which I really do miss). I actually did buy A95 after long dreams about d70. But one day it came to me apparent that I simply can not afford a $1500 toy which wouldn't pay off being used for occassional shots.
Problems:
1. (mentioned in the dpreview review) the camera is ABSOLUTELY TOO SENSITIVE in high-contrast-bright-light situations! The sunny part of the photo gets very often way too bright. The results in the sunny day are worse than auto-exposure-3-year-old-sony-cybershot-photo. Too bad
2. (connected to 1. ) Ugly purple-blue fringing in high-contrast -sunny situations! Like in tiny mobile cameras.
3. The camera is virtually UNABLE TO FOCUS in dark light. The auto assist beam is too weak. Just try to enter make a photo of a absolutely dark room or zoom into something in a dimm light. No way you get the focus. My 3-year-old Sony P71 performs much better in those situations.
4. The playback function is too slow even on a high speed SanDisk CF.
5. No battery-low indicator - after you see the blinking battery icon the camera turns dead after few shots. It would be nice to know it with some advance.
Summing up, 1, 2, and 3 can be really annoying and dissapointing. I already missed many of those 3-second situations which I wanted to shoot because camera would not focus at all. Or shoot some photo of a darkish stret and later on see that everything in the background is ugly too bright.
Well, perhaps I wanted too much from a $300 gear...