On the box it is mentioned 15x optical zoom, this may appeal to many of use but what I wanted was a good allround camera.good at shooting both portraits as well as landscapes, slow motion photography as well as ultra high speed photography. And trust me this camera fulfills all these.
Features-
The camera offers resolution of 9.1 megapixels with 15x optical zoom branded Carl Zeiss vario-tessar with image stabilization, a 3 inch tilting LCD, ISO sensitivity from 80 to 3200.
speaking about various modes this camera offers there is a host of these, including Easy mode for novices, aperture priority, shutter speed priority and manual mode which is useful for advanced users.Not to mention SCN mode which helps select settings as per the scene and Auto mode with intelligent scene recognition.There is also a SMILE SHUTTER mode which automatically takes photographs when subjects smile.It shoots video too at 640x480.
the camera comes with an infra red remote and a hidden night shot mode as well.
Shutter speed ranges from 30 seconds to 1/4000th second while aperture is 2.7-8.0 besides there are all metering modes which are found in DSLRs and various focusing modes too.
performance-
the camera performs well in both low light and bright light conditions and delivered saturated colors which look more vivid when used under vivid color setting.15x zoom does a brilliant job.the camera can be used in any lighting conditions and is an able performer.I used the camera to shoot the India gate using slow shutterspeed and narrow aperture(photo attached) and also impact of a water drop on floor.Both came astonishingly fine.Videos are fine and you can zoom in and out during recording.
Flash is on level with competition.the nightshot mode works well but not of much use(but trust me, in this mode you can take pictures even in pitch dark)
However I noticed noise ISO 400 onwards despite of Noise reduction on and the camera seems to have shutter lag which is a down point if you are shooting fast moving objects hence pre focusing is adviced.
I brought this camera at a DSLRish price of 21900INR and its worth it.I would recommend this camera to anyone who likes to do all round photography.It is equally good in all spheres of photography.Well I love my camera, do you?
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