Casio QV-2900UXCF 2.1MP Digital Camera
by CASIO

List Price: $499.99
Category: Digital Camera
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Casio QV-2900UXCF 2.1MP Digital Camera

Customer Review: Goods and Bads
Summary: 4 Stars

This *is* my first digital Camera, so i have no real bases to compare it to, however as an amature, i think its a nifty little bugger. It comes with all the regular accessories (mine only came with a 4mb card TT) and also an easy to use 'photo loader' program, for obviously, transporting your photos from the camera to the computer.

Feature wise, the 2900 is well off. Supporting a few different shooting modes (normal, portrait, landscape, night scene) and also the 'Best Shot Gallery' (which helps you take higher quality pictures based on the situation your in.) You can also adjust the filters and white balance which helps you get better lighting (personally, i like to play around with these features instead of using auto, it usually gives a better picture in the end.) This camera also supports an 8x optical zoom, plus a 4x digital zoom. Most people usually use the optical (which can get you EXTREMLY close to whatever you're taking a picture of) and the 4x digital doesnt seem to distort the picture at all.

I agree that when recording the pictures the lcd does apear 'grany' or 'sandy-like'. however this has NO EFFECT on the picture itself, and when you play back the picture on the camera, its cyrstal clear. Another cool feature about this camera is that you can turn the lens all in all dirtions! this was a charming feeature when i got bored and decided taking picture of myself (which i know we all do) The camera also has the ability to shoot 15 second silent mpeg movies. You also have the choice of shooting in two different ways, starting after pushing the shutter button, or recording until you hit the shutter button... i have no idea why they included the second one, i hardly use it (infact, i hardly use the mpeg mode anyway, i have a digital camcorder!)

But this camera, just as all cameras, is not without it's problems. it does not have a little hole to look out of when taking the pictures... i have no idea what its called... a manual view finder? and of course, there is also that lcd recording problem which i just spoke of (however, its completly able to live with). Another shameful thing that i found was that this camera does not support MANUAL FOCUS! i love have the option of being able to focus in on objects at a high zoom manually, because although the auto focus works fine, i just dont find it 100% reliable. Another problem i descovered was when uploading the pictures to the computer, they apear a little darker then they were on the camera, so thats something else to watch out for as well. and the last problem, occurs with all high zoom capable cameras, is that when you are in the 8x zoom, its really hard to keep the camera steady, i found myself having to use the burst option (which lets you take 3 pictures in order, right after eachother). I really wish Casio included a optical or digital imaage stabalizer like most Digital CAMCORDERS do now.

So in the end, the is a pretty good camera, with no REAL annoying problems (except the picture comming out darker on the computer, that may turn out troublesome. But you can always fix it with a computer program, i.e. Photoshop). And im overal quite pleased with the camera so far.

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