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WORKS GREAT NICE PHOTOS GREAT CAMERA TO LEARN WITH.
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vey good camera in display good in 22*17 cm prints compare to 2011 sony hx100v is superior. in 100% on display view inferior picture compare to canon D30 dslr 3mp in prints
It may look unusual (a giant lens attached to a small body) but the F707 remains one of Sony's best pro-sumer bridge cameras and something of a bargain buy now you can snap one up on e-Bay for comfortably less than £100. If anything the F707 looks more unusual in the metal than it does in pictures - the body really is tiny and the only way to carry it is by the lens. It's a five times optical job manufactured by Sony to specifications laid down by the legendary Carl Zeiss company. The lens is fast throughout the zoom range, and with a tremendous f2.0 maximum aperture at the wide end you can often shoot in lower light conditions without flash than owners of comparable prosumer models. The small body swivels up and down on a hinge - a great feature that allows you to cradle the camera against your chest/stomach for stability and still compose a shot or shoot over the heads of a crowd. Sony threw all its current digital technology at the F707 back in 2003 so the camera pretty much has the lot - an innovative noise reduction mode that takes two shots and extracts noise/artifacts on long exposures, a low power laser illuminator to help focus the lens in poor light and a nightsight mode (as used on many a Sony DV cam) for strange "green-tinged" effects in total darkness. The latter is a novelty but, unless you enjoy playing special forces when the sun goes down, the practical applications are limited. The five megapixel CCD is capable of excellent resolution and Sony's penchant for highly saturated reds and greens makes your pictures really "pop". It's not always true-to-life but, in most cases, the results are pleasing to the eye. Despite all the high tech, noise is always present in dark areas and the camera automatically ups the ISO when in full auto mode for poor lighting conditions making the situation even worse. Thankfully you can switch to manual or semi-manual operation and reset the ISO to a lower number. Stay below 200 and you should be OK. Battery life via a proprietary lithium ion cell is fine - you'll get a full day's shooting between charges. Replacements are easily available as the same cell found a home in several Sony DV cams. But is the F707 still good value in 2008 when less than £100 will score you a new 7 mega-pixel super compact? As any photographer will tell you, there is more to making a good camera than just cramming more pixels onto a tiny CCD, and 5 mega-pixels seemed to be the sweet spot for this class of camera (just remember the critical slating the F828 received a year or so later). Images produced by the F707 will easily stand up to scrutiny at A4 size - a practical maximum for most snappers who enjoy producing their efforts on a home printer. It's a great camera, beautifully made with a sensible feature set, that should last for many years to come.Read full review
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,Read full review
THE GOOD-fantastic lens.twistable body.great colours(wow).jpegs not over processed THE BAD-128mb memory limit.no raw capture.no image stabilization.tad heavy for a bridge camera. all in all a delight to use if it wasnt for the fact i cant capture in raw it would be my camera of choice every time .this camera is even giving my dslr a run for its money.7 years on and its still up there,testament to an old dinosaur.highly recommended at the right price.
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