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08 September 2010
I'd recommend this
2 of 2 found this helpful This is a great camera even by today's standards. i remember when these came out back in 2002 with a hefty price tag of around £800. then 5 megapixel was a massive pixel count & this was pretty much as good as you could buy back then. quite similar to my SLR regarding features but without the TTL. i am a wedding photographer & use the canon eos series of cameras for my work usually in AV mode. (this camera has AV mode as well as shutter priority, manual etc) There seems to have been a fair amount of confusion about the advertised maximum shutter speed of 1/2000 sec. So here are the facts. The camera will only use 1/2000 sec in Program AE, Auto exposure or Aperture Priority modes at F5.6 upwards, you can not select 1/2000 sec in Shutter Priority or Manual nor will the camera use 1/2000 sec in Aperture Priority mode (no matter what Aperture). The camera's shutter can only achieve 1/2000 sec at F5.6 (or smaller), this is because the F717 (like many other digital cameras) uses a combined aperture / shutter iris mechanism, the smaller the aperture the faster the camera can open and close it. This is exactly the same limitation we saw on Canon's G1 and G2 (1/1000 sec only available at F8. few things i could say about it is that the lens is a bit big (in relation to the body) & throws the camera slightly out of balance, focusing is'nt as fast as modern cameras & it uses the old style memory stick, theres more i could winge about but you have to remember this is not a modern camera, 8 years ago i'd give this 10/10. you could buy a better featured compact today for a couple of hundred pounds (with way better video capture - the video capture on this is more or less useless so anyone wanting this for video forget it - this is a still camera only) having said that as a second hand buy at under £100 this is a bargain especially for those wanting to move from compact to DSLR.
why did i buy it . . . . I am a recreational diver & recently picked up a cheap ikelite underwater housing (retail at £800 i won it on ebay for £50) the seller didnt know what camera it was for but i took a chance anyway & it didnt take me long to find out that this was the camera it was made for so back on ebay i quickly found one of these for under £70 & now i have a decent underwater camera for next to nothing. (to buy a housing alone for my DSLR is £1500)
would i buy it if i didnt already have the housing? . . no i dont think i would have, i didnt need another camera, however now i have one i'd say yes it's a great second hand buy, something anyone can use & if i lose or break it it wont bother me that much given what it cost me.
i'll end with saying the nightshot feature is great fun, pretty much a night vision device built into the camera so you can take pictures in total darkness or just walk around with it watching the (tiny) screen :)
i'd recommend this camera as a cheap second hand buy under £100,
04 July 2017
useless junk
connects but any movement at all & it disconnects, that includes walking so unless you are going to sit perfectly still while wearing this avoid it! crap