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I had no idea they exported Black Jack to the UK. Hopefully not Green Jack,
it's awful. The screen on the A80 seems smaller than it's siblings like the A60, and at first I just assumed they made it smaller because of the tilt/swivel. But then I noticed in the specs they're all the same size. I leave noseprints on my 10D and G3 as well, it's just a fact of life. Check to be sure your white balance is set to automatic, that should generally take care of the lighting conditions. 110 pictures isn't enough for a proper trial, I suggest getting it back out for another 300 or so before xmas. :-) Tom P. "Dazed" wrote in message ... In article , says... I'm glad you could stretch and get the A80, IMHO the swivel screen is worth a lot, and 4mp will keep you happy for a good while, too. It got the A80 delivered around Monday afternoon (which was pretty fast) and had a play with it for an hour (just to make sure it works ), before putting it away for xmas. First thoughts were that it's a lot smaller than it looks in the pictures I'd seen, my hand is quite a bit bigger than it. I took about 110 pictures and a couple of movies, about 1/2 of them were blurry or blown out due to me trying out the different settings, subjects moving or me wobbling. That and preferring to disable the flash. I found a lot of images had a yellow cast on them - I think this was due to the lamps in the house, changing the lighting setting seemed to help. It was hard to get decent pictures of the dog leaping about even in 'sports' mode, I guess the plethora of manual settings will allay that. I was disappointed with the LCD initially as I felt it was tiny, but after staring at it quite a bit, it seems substantial once again - one point to note is to rotate and close it when using the viewfinder, I left nose prints on it! I did find it hard to review the picture quality at first - until I used the digital zoom, the composite TV out also worked well. Anyway - the best photo I managed to take was of a Jack Daniel's bottle in-front of a lamp. I took it using the macro mode and manually focusing (though I may have knocked the AF thing after?), I put it at ISO 400 and according to Exif the shutter was 1/80 and aperture 3.2. www.dazed.dsl.pipex.com/JD.jpg I have noticed a few hot pixels on some photos in areas of dark contrast though. I also tried out some new webcam software on it, I got it to take a picture using 'remote control', but then it repeatedly flashed the AF assist light at me for about 1 minute after. -- Dazed Remove 'NOSPAMX' to reply by E-Mail. |
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