Dragos Craciun
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I have the camera for one month now. I've made about 1000 pictures with it and this is what I can tell:
It's a good camera, especially if you look at the price. I like very much the buffer implementation, you can shoot and shoot without waiting. Also I like that the lens are threaded, so one can use protection filters all the time (it's a very good idea). It's a nice thing that you can review the photos in shooting mode, without switching to play, and when you press the shuter it instantly returns to shooting mode. It's very convenient, I rarely use play mode. It has few CA, the lens are really good. It's solid. Has many manual settings, although I would like to have more buttons to imediately access some functions (especiallly MF). It has live histogram, which can help a lot.
Problems:
1. AF misses but still confirms that has a good focus. I had to throw away a very nice picture because of that. It's really a problem, but usually it's so out of focus that you can tell it from the LCD. But ... in that day it was a bright sun so I didn't see the problem because ....
2 ... The LCD has no antireflective coating. Too bad.
3. One particular problem: If you switch to MF and set to infinite, take some pictures and wait some time, like you do when you are in a car and taking shots in a trip, if the camera goes to power save when it wakes up the MF is set to 1m!!!! I made some bad shots until I realized that. Very inconvenient.
It's a good camera, especially if you look at the price. I like very much the buffer implementation, you can shoot and shoot without waiting. Also I like that the lens are threaded, so one can use protection filters all the time (it's a very good idea). It's a nice thing that you can review the photos in shooting mode, without switching to play, and when you press the shuter it instantly returns to shooting mode. It's very convenient, I rarely use play mode. It has few CA, the lens are really good. It's solid. Has many manual settings, although I would like to have more buttons to imediately access some functions (especiallly MF). It has live histogram, which can help a lot.
Problems:
1. AF misses but still confirms that has a good focus. I had to throw away a very nice picture because of that. It's really a problem, but usually it's so out of focus that you can tell it from the LCD. But ... in that day it was a bright sun so I didn't see the problem because ....
2 ... The LCD has no antireflective coating. Too bad.
3. One particular problem: If you switch to MF and set to infinite, take some pictures and wait some time, like you do when you are in a car and taking shots in a trip, if the camera goes to power save when it wakes up the MF is set to 1m!!!! I made some bad shots until I realized that. Very inconvenient.