The package contains a chic little camera, barely larger than a cigarette box, the battery, a USB cable, a charger and a hand strap. After a memory card in vain. A handy little bag to protect the camera is not included and must be purchased.
Fortunately, the camera has a standard tripod connection, so that you can attach to normal commercial stand. It is this but hardly do in practice, because such a camera is probably meant more for snapshots as to ambush a deer in autumn at dusk. Night shots you can not do anyway, so also the tripod socket is superfluous.
One must of such a device do not expect much, it is a self-confessed cheap clippers. However, what I expect is at least proof of a certain raison d'être. That said, I expect that the images which I shoot with this camera, look at least better than that of my smartphone and I have a few more possibilities for intervention before the image is created.
The global preferences are hardly worth mentioning. After all, let off and display a grid line network, which may be an assist in the correct orientation of the camera operation sounds.
The configuration options are very clear. There are automatic, portrait or Indoors, also a black and white recording option with increased contrast and an Auto Picture mode. The latter I do not recommend, because they change the scene mode in each wobbling, thus operates relatively haphazard.
Moreover, you can still adjust the image size or quality, in very strange gradations: There are two 20 megapixel, then 10MP, then equal merely still 4MP, 2MP and VGA and two truncated versions of the high-resolution capabilities. It has now arrived in the mainstream consciousness, that many megapixels are nonsense on a small image sensor and be counterproductive. In fact, it makes no noticeable difference in this camera (excluding the file size of each image is not to be underestimated), whether you're photographed with 20MP, 10MP or 4MP. From a certain increase in the stored image show up at any resolution the same weaknesses. I have therefore asked the image resolution to 4MP, more does not bring the camera anyway.
In addition, you can still choose between different white balance presets (or auto), continuous shooting, set the ISO sensitivity 80-3200 (or automatic), five different color effects, including grayscale and sepia, select, determine where the measuring field to lie for autofocus, and set whether the autofocus should run constantly or only once.
In the actual shooting situations you can still flash on or turn off (or automatic), set up a self-timer, correct the total exposure up or down and activate the macro mode.
In addition, it has a zoom function with five times optical zoom and digital zoom, which you can forget the digital zoom, as expected, since its use has a direct impact negatively on the image quality.
As for the macro mode, it is recommended for this camera, let him always turned on, because it affects only to close anyway. One can establish prima panoramic images even with switched macro mode, zoom, or make simple snapshots. The only thing you can not do, is close in macro mode is turned off. This switch should be located so can save.
The (previous) settings are therefore, in comparison with the smartphone camera, many. But it is missing, as always with cheap snapping that for photography really basic settings such as aperture size, shutter speed and focus.
The absence of these basic intervention can be pure gimmick that makes colorful bad pictures bad pictures from all the other colorful options.
After all, the lack of a focus adjustment by the autofocus is partially offset. But this works only very unreliable. In oblique target areas or narrow objects (plants!), To smooth (glass) or non-smooth surfaces (animal skin) and low light will tend to fail completely to the service. In the zoom range it does not work often. If it works once, the image is in focus, but turns out afterwards when viewing still in many cases than not focus accurately. Because you could have the same block a fixed lens, that would have made more sense.
The operation of the camera is relatively simple intuitive. Since there are not very many options, the menus remain quite clear. The indications on the display are easy to read, and the display brightness and the quality of image display on the display are unacceptable. In portrait mode, the display fails, because the viewing angle is limited so that the left eye sees something completely different than the right.
A positive feature is that the camera is ready for use in a very short time. Two seconds after you press the power button, you can already losknipsen. This usually takes longer for a smartphone.
There is also a video recording capability, but you can safely forget. Yes, there are videos recorded, but the quality is anything but appealing, and the sound is mono and under all.
The socket for connecting the mini-USB cable is hidden under a slightly friemeligen Kläppchen. When about connecting the camera to a PC, you can experience a surprise: The device is not a common practice known as digicams as mass storage, but actually as an external camera. In other words, you get the images that are on the map, not shown in a normal Explorer window in which you have to drive over a thumbnail with the mouse to obtain important information such as date, image size and resolution, etc., but in such a camera remote control window. If you want to know something about a picture, you must first right-click and select Properties. It is therefore advisable to get the necessary anyway memory card also equal to treat a card reader and then view each time for viewing images on the PC card from the camera. This is relatively simple and is not as annoying as these pseudo-remote control.
Looking at the pictures stored on the PC, quickly adapts to an unexpected disillusionment:
The pictures are at normal light usually slightly out of focus; Indoor shots without flash can throw away the same, which are expected to be poorly illuminated by lightning. With sunlight and outdoor often succeed very usable images, unless you begin to use the zoom function. Because if you do, blurred in the pictures mostly everything. It seems to be very bad not only the image sensor, but also the lens.
Furthermore, one has to reckon with all the images with color fringing and image noise. The few images that succeed, you can celebrate as a fluke.
Certainly the quality of images in daylight exteriors is usually sufficient to show them in Facebook or other low-quality online galleries. Probably they can also print in postcard size, without being too upset.
But really good images can be done with this camera even fewer than any perfectly ordinary smartphone camera. I think that at the end but then a little disappointing.
Photo-beginners or people who need a snapshot clippers for the beach, I recommend, therefore, to look rather for a higher-quality older model that it has a much better image sensor substantially less megapixels but and comparable in price of this camera, if not even cheaper , is, for example, the Canon Ixus 55th
