On 23 August 2010 03:32, J.C. O'Connell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > I recently bought a vivitar p&s digicam from radioshack. > I was a 12 MP marked down from $129 to $29 so I figured > what the heck. It was a horrible camera. When you took > a pic, you didn't get the review image to show up without > digging thru menus. Outdoors it was nearly impossible > to compose with only a LCD as there was no viewfinder > on it. The image quality was mediocre compared to the > Pentax istDS. I took it back next day, camera wasn't > worth $29. Learned a lesson, never buy amy camera without > a viewfinder (REAR LCD ONLY is not good).
I would argue that a decent P&S like a Canon S90 (or the coming S95) has a pretty usable rear screen, and I certainly seem to be able to produce images from it that are at least the equivalent of those produced by my old 6MP Pentax DSLR (at least at low ISO). -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
