The S4800 is ranked as so-called bridge camera and the external appearance suggests at first glance that there could possibly be a large-format camera.
First of all: on the image quality, the camera is good, of course, not on full-frame level, ranks here, but on a par with other compact cameras also.
However, from the Bridge-definition left is a very decent lens with a zoom range of 30! So much offer few. Because 30x really is a lot, waived the S4800 as well as on a further digital zoom.
Now the construction of the camera: From the sensor size of 1 / 2.33 inch is a very small sensor. The screen size is less than one centimeter. And even 16 million pixels on this small sensor are then housed. Clear that the pixels themselves are then very very small.
Often then this extremely small pixel cause problems when shooting with little light and more blurred images. The lens must, after all, be so good that it can distinguish between two adjacent pixels. This falls naturally contemporary easier if the pixels are larger. Just a small-format camera therefore needs a good look.
In the S4800, a solid and not flexible tube is provided, in which the objective disappears when not in use. Only in telephoto mode a part of the lens is extended again. However, the appear only one out-propelled tube and not a Bauturm of 3 or more individual segments.
Conclusion: The lens makes a solid impression mechanically.
When operating, the S4800 offers more than compact cameras. There is of course an automatic mode, but also a Program AE is available, as an aperture priority and a time delay. Furthermore, there is a purely manual mode and a panoramic setting. What you have waived the usual with compact snapping 49 and more scene modes, the function of which remain closed to the user and so far are worthless anyway.
Conclusion: If the exposure you have chosen a solid way, the recent small picture photographers very accommodates.
The pictures with the camera make consistently a good impression, a professional sharpness measurement I can not offer, of course. Basic errors or blurring are not noticed.
Conclusion: The image quality you get with the camera off well. Optics and sensor seem so work very well.
Your strengths plays off the camera if you use the telephoto end. Those who want to take pictures only his best friends at the cafe, this camera does not need. But if you sometimes want to record distant details or animals to photograph from a distance - which is here entirely correct.
Conclusion: The hammer in the camera is 30 times zoom, which you can, for example, to fill in the full moon almost full frame..
That one also saved in the camera at various points in the price is also clear:
So the camera only can be powered by batteries. Li-battery and charger so fall ever gone. There is no way, but instead of batteries to switch to batteries, which are in reference to Li batteries initially suspected: These batteries are designed for a single use, but are supposed to last longer.
When the batteries with the advance know you can live with it and keep at discounters a four substitute for little money in reserve. So it does make sure that you can always snap - without investing even in a second battery and charger and so on.
Likewise, the display is somewhat sparingly. It arrived for image viewing course completely out, but is rather grainy. Life can be so even if you do not want to view on the screen only his pictures.
Savings are also at full HD mode with the filming. Pixelwise enough pixels for full HD would indeed exist, perhaps you need then a faster image processor. So filming the camera "only" in the 720-er mode, but what is likely to be sufficient. A camera is not Cam, which you should keep in mind.
Must be praised the good shape of the camera. One knows immediately how to have to touch the camera and through the bulging grip you do not have fear, the device also firmly in hand and must lose the camera like a wet pebble out of his hands. Especially the small compact snapping are here partly terrible. In this respect, comes here at the S4800 certainly "pro-feeling" on.
Overall conclusion: handling, image quality, zoom range, exposure possibilities and mechanical construction are in this camera TOP! With the savings reductions in HD films, batteries and display you can live well and instead about the great telephoto shots delighted.
Recommended for people who want to use the zoom range and, yet do not want to make the leap to an SLR for about 10 times the price (Body + appropriate optics) then.
