So far I am very happy with this camera. Metering.
Is excellent. Color is good - excellent once you.
Take the green channel down by ten points or so. The camera has a bit more of a jaggy problem than.
Some other 2MPs, but I get around this by median.
Filtering then unsharp masking the jaggy areas in.
Photoshop. Jaggies are barely detectable on 8x10 prints, in any case. Some have suggested that the.
Jaggies are caused by aggressive image sharpening in the camera. By comparing images of the same scene taken at the three different sharpness settings, I have found this not to be the case. The jaggies are there in the "soft" images - they.
Are just blurred. If you sharpen a soft image in.
Photoshop, the jaggies are worse than if you just.
Shoot the scene in "normal" mode. In fact, I have.
Found that images are a bit soft in "normal" sharpness mode. An extra sharpening in Photoshop.
Provides slightly better results than does shooting in the "hard" sharpness mode. The lens is sharp from edge to edge, and with this extra sharpening, I think this camera compares with the Sony F505 and the Canon S10 in sharpness. The camera is loaded with features, and quite compact.
At the same time. So far, it's a winner!..
Some more experience with this camera has led.
Me to change my mind about it, for my purposes,.
At least. I like to view images full size on the.
Monitor, and, even with extra sharpening, indoor.
People shots come out a bit soft for me. Also, the camera doesn't seem to perform as well at the difficult task of focusing on my two-year-old daughter as my old D400 did. These could just be problems with the camera I received...Also the "roving focus" in the LCD quite frequently fails and I need to tap the shutter button to get the camera to focus.These issues have been enough for me to return the camera and pick up a (much more expensive!) Oly C2020...
I have had the QV-2000 for two months now and find it does a good job most of the time. The MAJOR drawback with this camera is it's poor performance to focus in low light. As there is no way of presetting (except try to find a brighter spot and press shutterbutton halfway) the manual focus most pictures will be out of foucs if in low-light.Ahh, I would love a scale coupled to the manual focus so I could preset!Still you do get a lot of camera for it's price!Especially with the microdrve+camera for 799!..
The Casio QV-2000UX is my first digital camera,.
And I've enjoyed it quite.
A bit. The pictures are pretty good, and the.
Features/price ratio is very impressive. However, I have had a few problems.
With it:1) The physical case does look and feel a little.
Cheap. The problem of.
The lens cover somtimes hitting the side of the.
Lens as it retracts is.
Annoying, and happens often if someone.
Unfamiliar with the camera tries.
To close the lens for the first time.2) During a trip, the camera (apparently).
Irreparably damaged the flash.
Card. I suspect that I may have pulled out the.
USB cable while it was.
Writing to the the Flash card, which the manual.
Explicitly advises.
Against. There is an LED on the side of the.
Camera that indicates when.
It's writing to Flash, and I've been careful to.
Not disturb it.
During these times, and haven't had any.
Problems with the new card.
Since.3) Once when opening or closing the camera lens.
Rapidly, the motor.
Appeared to try to retract the lens in even.
Though it was already.
Completely retracted. I don't think any damage.
Was done, but it was.
Another indication that the camera must be.
Treated gently.4) Normally, "slideshow mode" does a complete.
Pan-and-reverse of a.
Panoramic picture. However, if a panorama shot.
Is only two pictures wide, the entire panorama fits in the letterbox.
Picture, so there is no panning.
To be done. At this point the slideshow.
Freezes. This is probably a.
Software bug because the slideshow routine is.
Waiting for the pan (which.
Isn't happening) to finish (and it never.
Will). The slideshow can be.
Still be aborted, but this means if there are.
Any 2-frame panoramas,.
The slideshow will not completely cycle through.
All pictures. If you're the kind of person who tends to break.
Things and expects total.
Robustness and super-solid design, I'd probably.
Recommend going with a.
Different camera. However, sing this is my first.
Digital camera, I don't.
Know if these problems are typical be careful.But personally the features are nice enough, and.
The problems minor enough.
(well, unless the flash card gets zapped again),.
That I'm happy with it.It's definitely a good deal for the money...
Well, I went out blind and purchased my first digital camera. And I bought it at CompUSA. Both of these behaviors are abberant for me, as I'm typically exhaustive in doing research before I purchase anything. And I can't stand places like CompUSA. Anyhow, it worked out. I'm finding that this a great camera and I really couldn't beat the price ($100 instant CompUSA rebate and an additional $100 mail-in rebate).
Grand total: $446.25. Oh, and they also threw in a 32mb Sandisk Compact Flash card. 40 megs of memory.Negatives on this camera: battery life. It sucks. Alkalines die in 30 minutes.
Software doesn't work well under Windows 2000 Professional (well, only one or two of the bundled apps would even load).I'd give it 8/10...
The Casio QV-2000UX is my second camera after two year love-hate relationship with my Olympus D-600L, which had terrible focusing problem but great sharpness when it did focus.The Casio has great features, but drawbacks:.
1. The focusing is usually very good. Great focusing indoors, great pictures in lowlight, featuring it's f2.0.2. The IBM MicroDrive capability. 340MB!3. The great panorama feature.4.
Very good user interface.Drawbacks were that the photos came out much too soft and jaggy.As someone who cares much about the final result, I was very disappointed of the pixlized pictures. The Olympus was very sleek and sharp, and this camera outputs SOFT and JAGGY photos, especially in lowlight but also in normal conditions.Overall: If you want a great camera and don't care too much of the photo quality (which is not bad, after all) - it's for you.As for me - I'll probably go back to good lens comapnies, like Olympus or Nikkon...