jmco007
11-02-2005, 08:16 AM
Hi all, got this yesterday. Sorry, but I have to learn how to upload pictures so you all can take a look.
Here is what I learned so far:
1. It has a great flash, much more powerful than my DX4530. Will probably take care of the majority if not all inside or in house pictures, group pictures etc., in a excellent way. Don't know if you need the extra powerfull flash that they have available. I tried my Vivitar 285 HV flash and it works superbly. The Vivitar is much more powerful and less than $100.
2. Make sure you take the lens hood off or reverse it when using the flash. Otherwise it will cast a shadow.
3. It is much smaller than anpicipated, great size. About the same size as the Minolta A-2, A-200 series if you have seen those.
4. Some had a concern about the grip. It works, and is not an issue with me, I have large hands and thus fingers and could take pictures just fine.
5. The lens is very close to the front edge of the lens barrel, a filter, UV or your favorite is a must to protect lens.
6. Besides Auto, it has ,P,A,S,M, and C for "Custom". These work great and I love these features. It gives me complete control over all the variables on the camera, thus allowing total creativity. In fact one feature that blew me away is what seems to be an infinite amount of control on the White Balance. It shows you a multicolored icon that you can move a curser all over it and have what appears to be a huge amount of suttle White Balance changes.
7. So far my favorite feature is that 24mm wide angle lens. Beautiful, inside the house it lets you take the entire room not jut part of it.
8. I took about 12 pictures in RAW and used the supplied USB cord to download to computer and it took about 5 minutes, yes minutes. So I tried taking the SD card out of the camera and going direct to the computer via the USB port and hurray..., about 7 seconds, much, much better.
8. It has a huge amount of features, bells and whistles. Some I probably will never use, but having them there gives me that warm and fuzzy thing. This confirms that Kodak has given us a winner. It will take time to learn them, but it will not disappoint anyone who is serious about photography.
In closing, to those that just have to criticize. No this is not a $4,000+ Canon D5 or its $8,000 16MP big bother. I bought this for $450 at Dell, please keep this in view as you give us your opinions.:)
To be continued...
:)
Thanks,
Joseph
Here is what I learned so far:
1. It has a great flash, much more powerful than my DX4530. Will probably take care of the majority if not all inside or in house pictures, group pictures etc., in a excellent way. Don't know if you need the extra powerfull flash that they have available. I tried my Vivitar 285 HV flash and it works superbly. The Vivitar is much more powerful and less than $100.
2. Make sure you take the lens hood off or reverse it when using the flash. Otherwise it will cast a shadow.
3. It is much smaller than anpicipated, great size. About the same size as the Minolta A-2, A-200 series if you have seen those.
4. Some had a concern about the grip. It works, and is not an issue with me, I have large hands and thus fingers and could take pictures just fine.
5. The lens is very close to the front edge of the lens barrel, a filter, UV or your favorite is a must to protect lens.
6. Besides Auto, it has ,P,A,S,M, and C for "Custom". These work great and I love these features. It gives me complete control over all the variables on the camera, thus allowing total creativity. In fact one feature that blew me away is what seems to be an infinite amount of control on the White Balance. It shows you a multicolored icon that you can move a curser all over it and have what appears to be a huge amount of suttle White Balance changes.
7. So far my favorite feature is that 24mm wide angle lens. Beautiful, inside the house it lets you take the entire room not jut part of it.
8. I took about 12 pictures in RAW and used the supplied USB cord to download to computer and it took about 5 minutes, yes minutes. So I tried taking the SD card out of the camera and going direct to the computer via the USB port and hurray..., about 7 seconds, much, much better.
8. It has a huge amount of features, bells and whistles. Some I probably will never use, but having them there gives me that warm and fuzzy thing. This confirms that Kodak has given us a winner. It will take time to learn them, but it will not disappoint anyone who is serious about photography.
In closing, to those that just have to criticize. No this is not a $4,000+ Canon D5 or its $8,000 16MP big bother. I bought this for $450 at Dell, please keep this in view as you give us your opinions.:)
To be continued...
:)
Thanks,
Joseph