In bright daylight I would prefer an optical viewfinder rather than struggle with a LCD only viewing system. The other no-go is the lack of pic review immediately after taking the picture. Thats inexcusable. The vivitar in question here isnt a top line model at all, but I could never ever use a camera like that. Maybe there are some much better models in P&S land. It also had a nasty habit of not firing instantly, I presume that was AF hunting but the camera didnt have that reflex mirror thunk to give feedback that the shot had be fired.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:36 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Close encounter with a point and shoot On 23 August 2010 03:32, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
