Description: The Revio is designed to meet your need for a compact camera with the added features that the Advanced Photo System has to offer. It is equipped with a 2x Zoom (24-48mm) and 5-element lens to capture sharp, brilliant pictures at any range. Among the world's smallest and lightest APS zoom compact cameras, the Revio offers photographers a large variety of functions in one small package.
Rating Reviewed by: T K(Unregistered User)
(Casual)
Review Date July 3, 2001
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5,
3 votes
Review 1 of 7
Price Paid:
$99.00
from Photoalley
Summary: A very attractive camera that produces consistently good pictures, if you forget that it's an APS for a moment. I do not like the viewer, whoever had the glorious idea to put it in the middle and not to the left as any other camera does, wasn't very smart. Try to look through the viewer and then touch the zoom, you will poke your right eye out, almost. Also, don't like the design of the on/off button, very cheap. And the opening button for the film isn't much better either. In general, if you overlook a few details, it's a very nice camera and a very good value for less than $100!
Strengths: lightweight, robust body (for a small camera), good pictures for APS, useful zoom range
Weaknesses: little hard to peer through the viewer, flash weak
Similar Products Used: Canon Elph LT - absolutely anb inferior product. never got a single sharp picture out of it
Rating Reviewed by: Martin Davidsson(Unregistered User)
(Casual)
Review Date June 19, 2001
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Review 2 of 7
Price Paid:
$170.00
from photostore
Summary: picture are a lot blur on, but that can depends on the people developing the film. Picture are colorful. Like watching through brown sunglasses. But i think also that dependes of them developing my film (kodak). Picturequality is overall very good. I am very glad with the camera
Strengths: small,light,easy to use
Weaknesses: it is a little bit hard to peer through the lens if you know what i mean.
Rating Reviewed by: Michael Jimenez(Unregistered User)
(Professional)
Review Date July 26, 2000
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5,
1 votes
Review 3 of 7
Summary: The best APS camera out there. Perfect flash uniformity, so small I dont think twice about taking it with me EVERYWHERE!!! Thank you Konica.
Strengths: Small, compact, light, and gorgeous. The easiest camera I have ever used. Cant beat the three year warranty.
Weaknesses: So small you might lose it
Similar Products Used: Canon Elph- Very grainy pictures and flash wont go down anymore. Canon Elph 2- Still grainy, more red eye than before. Pentax Efina- Next best but bigger
Customer Service: Havent had to use it yet, but I heard its quick and responsive
Summary: This is an excellent camera if you don't expect too much from it. You can carry it anywhere without even knowing it's there, and the results show good sharpness and contrast, and the AF and metering are absolutely spot-on. My Ricoh eats it alive but what would you expect?! More interestingly, it's photos are much better than the ones my friends get from their APS cameras (see above). The L1/Jr betters it for edge-to-edge sharpness but exposures are everywhere. The Vectis 300 and Ixus/Elph have softer lenses and easy-to-fool metering. If you must have a cheap, tiny APS zoom then I heartily recommend it. If you can live with a bigger camera though, avoid APS altogether!
Strengths: Small, light but well made, attractive design, easy to use, lens reasonably fast at wide end (f/4). Nice velvety pouch. Good feature list including night mode, infinity, +1.5ev exposure compensation, usual flash modes, shutter range 2-1/500 secs. Produces great results (for an APS zoom). Low-light shots very good too.
Weaknesses: Flash results are very good, but flash reach and coverage aren't too good (dark corners). No worse than most tiny compacts though. Shutter release a little trigger-happy. Lens is slow at full-zoom (f/7.6). Red-eye occasionally a problem.
Similar Products Used: Ricoh GR-1s, Olympus MJU-II/Stylus Epic. Seen friends' results from Canon Ixus/Elph, Ixus L1/Elph Jr and Minolta
Customer Service: Sent them an e-mail once and their reply was friendly, informative and prompt.
Rating Reviewed by: Steve Wall(Unregistered User)
(Professional)
Review Date February 23, 2000
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Value Rating 5 of 5
Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5,
1 votes
Review 5 of 7
Model Reviewed: Revio
Summary: I gave it 4 thumbs up because nothing is perfect. I am a professional photographer. I have taken over 40 rolls of film and am delighted with this camera. I am upgrading to the Z3. In regards to the problem of slow focus time missing decisive moments: all auto focus camera, they all have a lag time between pushing the shutter and actual moment of snapping the photograph.
Strengths: Just about the the smallest APS out there with a zoom. Beats the Elph due to the fact that the pop up flash on the original Elph I often breaks. The pop up flash blocks also blocks somewhat acess to mode buttons on the top of the Elph and can be hit by fingers. The Revio has all this on the rear, not the top. Instead of an icon changing, the Revio has all the available icon features on a screen all the time and a little triangle pointer that moves when you push the mode button. Much more user friendly and ergonomic. Best thing about the Revio is the view finder window much larger than the Elph and easier to use if you are near sighted or wear glasses.
Weaknesses: Slow speed lens which lose a stop when extended to zoom. But this is true of all zoom lens. Because of the small compact size of the camera, they could not put a faster lens in because it would be larger in diameter. Also to keep lens quality, it is easier with a small aperture. With the Z2 you can rewind the film, but not reload the film. You can with the Z3! Like all APS cameras, don't expect great quality prints past 5x7, but at that size they look fantastically sharp!
Similar Products Used: I ran an accurate lens sharpness test on a tripod along with the original Canon Elph I which has the same zoom range len
Customer Service: I have spoken to the folks in their Tech/Repair department and they are nothing short of great. Same goes for their photo lab. The camera has a design flaw with the battery connection which has shorted out three times. Once the lens cover blades closed slow. Have sent in 3 time. Never the less, I love this camera and will bear with any problems.
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