Just bought one of the above to use as a "walkabout" and family snapshot camera. All I can say is WOW, picture quality rocks, colour tones etc are spot on, and the top thing has to be the HD video quality, with stereo sound and ability to zoom while recording!
Incredibly easy to use and much more descrete than carrying an SLR everywhere. Wife loves it as it's an easy point and shoot.
No car vids yet, but will do some as soon as my mount arrives.
Only a few examples of shots taken with it so far:
my new snake having lunch:
and some from Beamish museum:
I don't think it could ever outdo my Sony A200 DSLR, but I know I will use this one hell of a lot as the quality is spot on for a point and shoot.
intelligent Auto works superbly and means you rarely have to change the settings at all. Noise supression is very good and the lens seems to be sharp as you can hope for.
All in all well worth the money and I would highly recommend. I would suggest getting an 8gb card though, it eats memory when you are videoing.
Incredibly easy to use and much more descrete than carrying an SLR everywhere. Wife loves it as it's an easy point and shoot.
No car vids yet, but will do some as soon as my mount arrives.
Only a few examples of shots taken with it so far:
my new snake having lunch:
and some from Beamish museum:
I don't think it could ever outdo my Sony A200 DSLR, but I know I will use this one hell of a lot as the quality is spot on for a point and shoot.
intelligent Auto works superbly and means you rarely have to change the settings at all. Noise supression is very good and the lens seems to be sharp as you can hope for.
All in all well worth the money and I would highly recommend. I would suggest getting an 8gb card though, it eats memory when you are videoing.