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| Originally Posted by Cussy It looks like a re-badged camera to me. No experience of it, so I wont commetn. |
Thanks for that Rob.
Ah, but not knowing something doesn't often put me off.
Hmmm, lessee now:
"• High definition 5.0Megapixel CMOS picture element, (interpolates up to 12 megapixel)". Would utter rubbish be too polite a phrase? How's about GIGO then?
"• 8X digital zoom" and no mention of an optical zoom. That immediately sets the alarm bells clanging in my head. As we all know, or should, digital zooms are next to useless.
"• Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery". I'm developing, as I speak, a "bit of a paper" on rechargeable batteries and I'm pretty sure that Li-Ions aren't going to come out of it smelling of a bed of roses, particularly for u/w use. Watch this space. I'm unsure whether NiMH is a viable replacement in this instance, the information isn't there.
"• SD memory card (up to 2GB)" My guess is that it doesn't come with any at all - OK, nor did my new camera which cost some five times as much as this whole system for the camera body alone but Sigma didn't put it in quite such a "subtle" way.
"• Tough, virtually indestructible polycarbonate" is how the housing is described. Probably fairly correct but I much doubt that it also applies to the "• 14 buttons allowing full camera control" which form part of that housing.
I now have some questions:
• It seems odd to me that there is no mention of the lens, its capabilities, other than that it has an 8x digital zoom. So what's the aperture? Shouldn't that information be a given? The first thing I look at in ANY lens, ANY P&S camera is the aperture.
• Are proprietary wide angles attachable to the housing? I'm prepared to say NO here and now even though I have no real way of knowing that.
So what's good about it? It's cheap and being cheap it's a good starter for all those budding photographers who think that u/w pics are happy snaps - and then get disillusioned when they realise that's not the case. This way they at least lose less money to find out.
I'll now put away the cynic hat until the next time.