The camera is easy to use and the printed pictures are crystal clear (sharp and vivid). Just a little bit noisy if enlarged.
Special features for this digital compact camera are quite a number: AE bracketing, HP Adaptive Demosiac, HP Adaptive Lighting, HP Auto Red-eye Removal, HP Design Gallery, HP Image Advice, HP In-camera Panorama Preview and Stitching, HP Noise Filter, HP Preferred Photo Reproduction, HP Vignetting.
Shooting Modes: Auto (default), Action, Aperture priority, Beach, Document, Landscape, Manual mode, My mode, Night Scenery, Night Portrait, Panorama left, Panorama right, Portrait, Shutter priority, Snow, Sunset, Theatre.
Manual Controls: AE bracketing, AE metering, auto focus area, color bracketing, contrast, EV compensation, image quality, ISO speed, saturation, sharpness, video quality, white balance.
Exposure control: Aperture Priority, Auto (default), average AE metering, center-weighted auto exposure metering (AE), Full Manual, Shutter Priority, spot AE metering.
About the movie mode, zoom can be used during filming and the quality is pretty good. There aren’t many buttons on the camera and the menu system has five parts: capture, playback, design gallery, setup, and help.
Some bugs: ISO setting was ignored in shutter priority mode, LCD blackout during continuous shooting.
Overall: a limited ultra-compact digital camera useful for occasional travellers and fans of high resolution prints.
Technical Data:
• 3 inch LCD (wow)
• 8.2 megapixels
• 24x total zoom (3x optical, 8x digital)
• Aperture range of F2.8 - F5.0
• Focal range of the lens is 7.5 - 22.5 mm
• Secure Digital (SD) Memory Storage
• No View Finder
• ISO range: 100, 200, 400
• Shutter Speed: 16 to 1/2000 sec
• Sound capture: only 60 sec
• Only JPEG format supported
• R07 lithium-ion rechargeable battery
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March 20th, 2007 at 8:27 am
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