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Average rating:
3.96
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Toshiba PDR-M612.2 megapixels | 1.8" screen | 38 – 114 mm (3×)
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Average rating:
3.96
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Opinion: Updated review after 9 months of use:
- read the manual. Has many features that would have prevented bad pictures.
- poor flash but using manual features can be avoided.
- buy a mini tripod to avoid using flash
Opinion: This camera is wonderful for outdoor photography and particularly for macro shots. It is poor at flash photography, but does great indoors with no flash. The color balance with the flash setting is awful. An external flash connection would have solved this. You must learn how to use the focus, but it's worth it. The feel, user friendly controls etc make this a fun camera to use. Everyone is amazed at how great the pix look.
http://home.insightbb.com/~johnhetti/pix/dwood779.jpg
Problems: As stated, the knob is turned accidentally too easy, but the cam has a power saver shutoff. The battery door is a real kludge, but you learn to simply snap it shut and it works. There seems to be a dead spot in focus at about 10". Yes you can see the lens, but who uses the eyepiece for perfect shots anyway. Like most digital cameras it does not have a quick response time.
Opinion: I agree with most of the other reviewers here. It is a very good
digicam for the money. Consumer Reports must feel the
same as they named it a Best Buy a year ago, just before
Toshiba discontinued it!
Problems: I'm surprised no one mentioned having difficulty with the
battery cover. It takes some dexterity to close.
Problems: 1)The big knurled "on" knob has the irritating
habit of turning the camera on and wasting the batteries.
2) The battery door requires a lot of care
to close properly.
3) lately, the smartmedia card has been getting corrupted, asking for a reformat
(tossing all stored photos). I'll clean the contact points with a pencil eraser and see if that helps.
Opinion: acabo de comprarla en España por 300 E euros en general estoy bastante satisfecho, aunque soy consciente que tiene sus defectos como la lentitud de enfoque, tambien es cierto que para irte a otra de similares caracteristicas te tienes que ir a los 500 a 600 euros. un saludo desde Valencia
Opinion: I also am very satisfied. I paid $250 for the camera (Summer '01) and I believe I got much, much more for my money than did my friends who bought other, better-known cameras.
To everyone writing these reviews, I ask the question: "Did you study the manual?" I did. Several times, in fact. And I need to review it often. This camera is not a toy and it's not a point-and-shoot either. It's a complex tool and it demands attention in order to be learned well.
I purchased the camera for lots of reasons, including a need to put product shots on a Web site that I built. After buying this camera, I built a tabletop photography "studio"
(http://www.shortcourses.com/how/tabletop/tabletop.htm) and practiced. With the microphotography mode, the product shots came out exqusitely (and I saved paying for a photographer acquaintance to do the job).
Lesson is: Learn the manual!
Problems: My head doesn't remember all the possibilities outlined in the manual.
Opinion: You get great features from this camera. It's totally worthy if you want a lot of features with limited money. Pictures taken from outdoor with adequate lighting is good.
Problems: But besides that, nothing is good. Pictures taken from indoor, night, even too much light are awful. The flash is very weak, and the color reproduction is bad.
Opinion: I specifically purchased my camera (and a 64MB flash card) for a trip to Peru in August and was very happy with the quality of the images and the value paid.... Recently, I purchased the zoom/wide angle lenses.
Problems: As everyone has stated the view finder has a flaw. Also, (and it could be a operator error) but I've had some trouble taking pictures using the flash or using the right flash setting to take pictures with minimal light.
Opinion: For the price you can't beat it. I picked a used one up from best buy for $260 and another $50 bucks for a 64mb smart media card. The camara takes beautiful pictures and if very easy to use. And if that wasn't enough for another $250 including shipping I picked up this additional lenses package from dcprodirect.com, which greatly increased the range and value of my camera.
Problems: As everyone else mentioned the barrel does block the viewfinder, especially with additional lenses attached. Not a fatal flaw, but an annoyance. You can still use LCD viewfinder
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