The main points for me are: small, light, handy and good pictures.
And that meets these small camera.
When unpacking you think: Nanu .. where is the camera?
In the middle of the real wealth of accessories hiding the small all-rounder.
On the way you can see the camera in your pocket or even stuck in the Jeans Pants Pocket! (Depending on the jeans brand / model)
The only thing then is bothering to get to the quick to the flash-pop-up button.
The swiveling display is still visible even in strong sunlight, so you never lose the essential out of sight, for example on the beach.
If you turn the screen towards filmed so it automatically rotates the image content so that you can see a normal picture (rather than to have one on his head standing.)
The MPEG-4 format should meanwhile not be a problem. Plugins and codecs there to crowd and even on the Amiga can be thanks to MEncoder and MPlayer enjoy the movies and transcode. The only drawback is once again in the HDTV resolution. Since the image information thanks to the high resolution gobble a lot of computing time, one needs to have a very fast computer to the movies smoothly reproduce. With many tricks do you manage to as low as about 2.4 GHZ (AMD XP) and you should have plenty of free memory. The bundled software requires more power and so need the PC for a complete DVD before the 8 hours umkonvertieren (1 hour 20 minutes HD Filmaterial 6Mbps). This is done by software but very good.
The photos are in a good quality. Above all, zooming in with the camera makes fun right!
Only one should bear in mind that with active image stabilization and 16: 9 format only after pressing the shutter button all the visible image (16: 9 and stabilizer limiting the picture). You can circumvent it by selecting the stabilizer type B shows the actual movie because the field in a drawn frame so that you can see what you are capturing the trigger (By default, the display of the camera in video mode) really. This does not work in the 16: 9 movie mode.
The battery lasts a surprisingly long time! In normal mode, longer than 100min and in HDTV mode about 85 minutes. But beware of compatible battery replicas they have not even kept up with me 40minutes and then were exhausted.
The operation is quite simple: open the display, and off you go. At slow SD card may already times longer. But with a 2GB class 6 card is only about 1 second. In contrast, at a slow 8 GB card Class 2 can already take up to 5 seconds before it starts. Therefore directly access fast cards. The funny breakdown or the snapshot is determined not to wait specially for you 5 seconds;)
I especially liked the filter options that make the picture look more lively and rich color.
The interface options in the camera menu are very good and so you can directly on vacation ever cut, merge or presentation directly from the camera Start movies.
A tip for Amiga users:
The camera with 8GB SDHC card until the camera Fully Formatting, then connect it to the Amiga and after recognition perform a fat95 quick format. This can be the map now also easily use the Amiga (Tested with Poseidon 3.X MorphOS 1.4.5)
