| A | is outstanding and exceptional, rated in the top 10% of digital cameras. |
| B | means they are good, with some standout features. |
| C | means they are mediocre, and probably more trouble than they are worth. |
| D & F | mean they are absolutely awful or old. Avoid at all costs. |
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- 4 out of 5
Read this review... its the truth!
( - 4/7/06)I've owned this camera for 2 months now... I am a professional photographer with a canon 5d (2)system a couple flashes, 24-70 f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 and a fisheye....
Listen, this is the best starter (digital entry level) camera you can buy... the best features are this... its 9mp sensor (great 8x10's are made from the 4mp nikon d2h!), its Manual Exposure control (necessary for everything if in a studio or just outside in bright contrasty light!), and the PC Sync terminal that lets you use this camera with studio lighting or even with the old non ttl flashes that are dirt cheap (sunpak 383 only $79 from www.bhphotovideo.com)!!
There are only 4 weak points with this camera... only four!!!!
1.) Auto focusing system is just not serious for anything indoors (wedding are mostly indoors) or fast! It cant keep up. Thats funny, only the Minolta A200 can kinda keep up with fast moving objects in this category of camera!
2.) The Camera doesnt support TTL AutoFlash! This means you have to know a tiny bit about flash to create proper lighting with its manual flash only hot shoe.
3.) The lens is F2.8 at 28mm (which is good) but it drops all the way down to F4.9 at its 300mm setting (which is bad since the Sony F828 is F2.8 all the way through!). This results in some photographs being a tad too dark (when your indoors for example in the afternoon).
4.)The speed of the camera at saving images! Its horrible. This renders any photographer to have to take his/her time and get each shot right. JPG takes 1.5 seconds but RAW takes 11 seconds at worst!!
For all its short commings though this camera is still the top of the pack even trumping the Sony RD1. I only say this because of the ease of getting rechargeable NIMH batteries-that last 300 shots by the way, and the PC sync terminal that makes this camera out of the box able to take into a studio environmen.
P.S. If you take this into a studio environmen... I highly suggest that you only shoot RAW because the JPG format just plain doesnt keep enough information to make it suitable unless you are a lighting master that keeps all the lights no more than 1 f-stop apart from each other!
