[thechat] cameras

[Bob Davis]

On Sep 28, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Martin Burns wrote:

>> some manual controls,
>> good automatic pictures (for when I'm lazy) costing < US$400.
>>
>
> Sony Cybershot with a Carl Zeiss lens?
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html

On paper, this camera looks like a winner - but as I read more and more 
reviews of the camera, it became pretty clear that the only ones 
getting acceptable shots from it were doing all of the controls 
manually, and simply not taking some shots that they knew would be 
questionable. The W1 has a very aggressive anti-artifacting system that 
smoothes details out too far.

 From what I understand, the Canon has a very good lens that uses a new 
process (here's where they reviewer went into glass geekery that I 
didn't even try to understand) that is very cool.

I haven't heard anyone trash the S60 the way I've heard them go over 
the W1. Some of the reviews were flat out savage. To be fair, they also 
say a lot of the same stuff about the Canon S500, which should be 
great, but is, apparently, a step back from the S400 which it replaces.

bob