The device comes with a battery and charger (it never does a charger more at home ... since each brand and each model has his own ...), but not the cord to transfer Pictures on PC (however, I had what it took) or SD card. We must therefore think of buying more and is really needed to start because the device has no memory for it, even one or two shots for the first tests.
Most of the buttons are identical in many devices, possibly just change their habits for a particular function. Some functions are customizable (by then his habits).
Let the photos, so I target 18-50 mm WR allowing quite a variety of shots, both in macro and landscape.
The pictures are quite honest and colors very well restored, but for the macro, I still dig it, because I do not happen to good results with my "old" Sony ALPHA100 and 50mm Macro lens perhaps should I upgrade tweaks, perhaps I asked too to this objective?
In addition, photos can be taken in a variety of conditions, even in very low light, the grain remains quite acceptable in extreme conditions. For pictures on a beautiful spring day, I was really satisfied, in automatic mode, to find the same blue sky, white clouds and tender green leaves!
The Live View can be selected via the eyepiece or take pictures while watching the screen, but it's a choice each time by pressing the Live View button (there is no automatism if by example we chose the screen and as you approach the eye to the viewfinder, we see nothing, it's black, you have to press again on the Live button view). By default, this is the direct target that is installed (systematically ignition).
There are 4 possibilities of information on the screen: standard, detailed histogram and RGB histogram (or nothing).
There are 19 different types of scenes (macro, portrait, landscape ... museum, concert)
There is a good variety of filters to have fun taking different pictures can be used upstream of filters (extract the colors, replace, retro, high contrast, shadows, negative, single-colored reinforced, reinforced monochrome, creative picture ), but can also work directly photos on camera then, the reworked picture is saved as a new file (keeps the original): more filters (sketch, watercolor, pastel posterization, miniature, soft, glitter, fish eye, stretching, monochrome), moiré correction crop, resize, slide show ... We can overlay (overlay) two photos to interesting effects. Transforming RAW to JPEG ... In short, enough to have fun in creative mode!
One can also save specific settings for 2 different users (or 2 types of preferred uses) U1 and U2.
Screen Information is rather clear overall, but I had to use the booklet for some functions that I could not immediately find, intuitive, but not too much ... and there functions so that for some rarely used (but interesting on occasion) it is better to keep the book close.
The camera function is not useful to me, but it is honest in troubleshooting, although quite inconvenient when you want zoom, it is not necessarily visualized if the scene is clear, moreover, the wheel Sharpness setting is then
The button toggles between JPEG RAW instantly is a bit hard, but very practical!
Not being equipped, I have not tested the Wi-Fi function
In the positives that bring a little more at the start:
- Quick Start Guide provided is not very big (66 pages) and only in French, I do not like wasted paper (and the packaging itself perfectly to size, nothing too). The more detailed booklet can be downloaded online at the brand site: [...])
For cons, the strap is not very comfortable, very simple, little wide.
Made in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong ... everything is detailed on the packaging.