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By the specs listed it should be a good camera for your $$
In the past Casio has been a good solid producer of digital cameras.
I have not used this one, but again by the book it has all the right stuff.
I look at the Lens and the chip first, this is what gives you the picture quality.
The lens provided several groups, or lens sets inside the what we see popping out the front. The Pentax lenses it uses are above average quality. It goes from a good wide angle to a decent telephoto. Add the digital zoom onto that and you will be able to get some decent far away photos. Digital zoom will only magnify what the optical zoom gives you. This results in a grainer photo.
The chip is consistent with cameras that are in the lower price range and but use technology to enhance its capabilities. Think of it as a 2.5 mp chip with a software doubler. Photos taken at the full 5 mp setting may not be as clean, crisp and most of all as vivid as photos taken at a lower setting. When the *Digital zoom is used at the 5 mp setting you will have found the weakness of this setup.
The size and the feature set are the strong points of this unit. Wow mpg movies with sound from a camera that is the size of a deck of cards. 5mp capabilities A lot of the same unit is great as well. You will need to get a large SD card as well. 256-512-or a 1gb card should fit into your budget.
The self timer is good for taking RC shots. Its impossible to hold the camera still. I'm not sure if it has a tripod mounting hole. It looks as if the ISO adjustments only go to 400 or was it 600 I need to look again. 1000 ISO is the best for taking photos of moving objects. If its 600 you will be fine, if its only 400 you may want to look more.
If good quality, not great quality is what you are willing to trade for all the other features this unit has its a good choice. The strength of this camera is its size, movies, and ease of use.
In the past Casio has been a good solid producer of digital cameras.
I have not used this one, but again by the book it has all the right stuff.
I look at the Lens and the chip first, this is what gives you the picture quality.
The lens provided several groups, or lens sets inside the what we see popping out the front. The Pentax lenses it uses are above average quality. It goes from a good wide angle to a decent telephoto. Add the digital zoom onto that and you will be able to get some decent far away photos. Digital zoom will only magnify what the optical zoom gives you. This results in a grainer photo.
The chip is consistent with cameras that are in the lower price range and but use technology to enhance its capabilities. Think of it as a 2.5 mp chip with a software doubler. Photos taken at the full 5 mp setting may not be as clean, crisp and most of all as vivid as photos taken at a lower setting. When the *Digital zoom is used at the 5 mp setting you will have found the weakness of this setup.
The size and the feature set are the strong points of this unit. Wow mpg movies with sound from a camera that is the size of a deck of cards. 5mp capabilities A lot of the same unit is great as well. You will need to get a large SD card as well. 256-512-or a 1gb card should fit into your budget.
The self timer is good for taking RC shots. Its impossible to hold the camera still. I'm not sure if it has a tripod mounting hole. It looks as if the ISO adjustments only go to 400 or was it 600 I need to look again. 1000 ISO is the best for taking photos of moving objects. If its 600 you will be fine, if its only 400 you may want to look more.
If good quality, not great quality is what you are willing to trade for all the other features this unit has its a good choice. The strength of this camera is its size, movies, and ease of use.
Focus on this.
If these are issues that you can deal with Its a good choice.
Softness around edges and corners of photos; moderate barrel distortion
Redeye
LCD only "gains up" in certain Best Shot modes, most of which require a tripod; LCD resolution isn't great either
Poor low light focusing / no AF-assist lamp
Can't swap memory cards while camera is on a tripod
No memory card included; just 9.3MB of on-board memory
No video out port
Outdated movie mode
Full camera manual only on CD-ROM
Did you see the video clip? 10 seconds of vid for 2.5mb and the quality was just OK.
Starting to knit pick here.
The price is right.
If these are issues that you can deal with Its a good choice.
Softness around edges and corners of photos; moderate barrel distortion
Redeye
LCD only "gains up" in certain Best Shot modes, most of which require a tripod; LCD resolution isn't great either
Poor low light focusing / no AF-assist lamp
Can't swap memory cards while camera is on a tripod
No memory card included; just 9.3MB of on-board memory
No video out port
Outdated movie mode
Full camera manual only on CD-ROM
Did you see the video clip? 10 seconds of vid for 2.5mb and the quality was just OK.
Starting to knit pick here.
The price is right.
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I am not much of a knit picker so some soft corners edges arn't gonna give me a rash. I have used the camera at circuit city and i thought the LCD was fine. Can't swap memory cards while on tripod, well get a big enough card so you don't have to or unscrew the damn thing lol. I won't be taking video and If I do I won't expect much, thats what a video camera is for or our other digital camera. Thanks ed.
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