3 Comments

1. Mendingo says:

   Looks pretty gosh-darn-stinkin’ good to me.

   Would you recommended I get one?

2. Lyza says:

   Generally, yes.

   The low points are:
   * Occasionally lackluster autofocus
   * No actual viewfinder–just the giant LCD screen (most people aren’t bugged by this, I’m peculiar in that way)
   * Any ISO above 400 is basically unusable (noise), so it’s not an ideal low-light camera–but its flash is pretty decent

   Also, to get it to do what I want I spend a fair amount of time twiddling with manual settings; not sure how awesome it would be in full-automatic mode :).

3. Lyza says:

   Hmmm, my last comment sounded negative because I only listed the bad things!

   Great things are:

   * Really good color and resolution at low ISOs
   * Tons of great manual and SLR-like options
   * 16:9 makes your photos look like heroes
   * It does video at 1280xsomething (16:9) at 15fps which is pretty impressive
   * Pretty intuitive interface
   * It “feels” nice-quality
   * Nearly instant-on, which is good for power-saving (I just turn it off everytime I’m done taking a picture)

   (Oh, and you can instantly switch from 16:9 to 3:2–standard 35mm ratio–and even 4:3 if you are so inclined).