Everyone who writes about this camera complains that the lens cap is too loose and tends to fall off. It's true, but I also think it's intentional. The lens barrel extends fully at startup, and if the mechanism's as delicate as people say it is, it's probably important that the lens cap be made to pop off harmlessly if this accidentally happens while the cap is on. I've already managed to do this once.
Another common complaint is that the viewfinder is hard to use in bright light, since it's not a simple optical tunnel or an SLR but an electronic viewfinder similar to the ones in video cameras, basically a smaller, lower-power LCD with an eyepiece. We'll see. The viewfinder does have a diopter correction knob, but I can also use it wearing glasses without much trouble. The main LCD is a tilt-and-swivel type, which is nice; my old Nikon's swiveling lens was one of the niftiest things about it, since you could easily use it to take pictures from waist height, over your head or pointing back at yourself.
I got Canon's soft case, which is nice-looking but only large enough to hold the camera itself, without any accessories.
It will be interesting to see how awkward this thing is to carry around in the field. I've only had pocket cameras before, and this is definitely not a pocket camera--I might keep the Nikon around for that purpose. On the other hand, it's much smaller than an SLR.
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Date: 2006-06-09 02:18 pm (UTC)Another common complaint is that the viewfinder is hard to use in bright light, since it's not a simple optical tunnel or an SLR but an electronic viewfinder similar to the ones in video cameras, basically a smaller, lower-power LCD with an eyepiece. We'll see. The viewfinder does have a diopter correction knob, but I can also use it wearing glasses without much trouble. The main LCD is a tilt-and-swivel type, which is nice; my old Nikon's swiveling lens was one of the niftiest things about it, since you could easily use it to take pictures from waist height, over your head or pointing back at yourself.
I got Canon's soft case, which is nice-looking but only large enough to hold the camera itself, without any accessories.
It will be interesting to see how awkward this thing is to carry around in the field. I've only had pocket cameras before, and this is definitely not a pocket camera--I might keep the Nikon around for that purpose. On the other hand, it's much smaller than an SLR.