Review 5 of 8
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$250.00
from Ebay Summary: Well i have been playing with this camera for a couple of weeks now. Takes very nice shots but i have found the auto focus sometimes making mistakes leaving me with a blurry picture.Typicly when trying to shoot objects from far distances were just locking the focus on infinity works better. Up close auto focus works great. I have found i get much better shots in manual mode as apposed to auto mode. Picture quality is very good, took a shot of me and my motorcycle today with tripod and in timer mode. Came out great, Printed a 8.5 by 11 inch picture on my Epson 780 photo printer. Looks absolutley GREAT!! Strengths: Things i really like are when reveiwing the pictures on the LCD its instantly switches from one picture to the next. Many cameras i have seen have a quite a bit of lag but this camera is very quick. Also the LCD is very good, much better than old Fuji 2400. I can actually use it in bright sunlight.Having a 4 power zooms is also very nice. I recomend a 128 meg compact flash card as that will hold 74 pictures at the highest resolution highest quality Jpeg setting. I only take pictures at full resolution as it doesnt make sense to do otherwise as i can just compress the Jpeg more in Photo Shop 6.0 .Plus if you want to crop the picture later the high the res the better.I have posted pictures in the gallery i have taken with this camera, take a look. Weaknesses: Weakness is the autofocus as described above. Uses batteries quite quickly. I use 1600 milla/amp metal hydrides. I can get all 74 pictures in high resolution highest Jpeg setting with one set of batteries. Not sure if this is normal or not but it takes the usb setup with the camera to transfer 128 meg worth of pictures to computer about 14 minutes, i thought that was rather slow. I bought a card reader for 24 bucks and it does 128 meg in about 4 minutes. Similar Products Used: Fuji 2400, canon A40 Customer Service: I have only contaced tech support through email to ask about a AC adapter and they responded the same day.
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