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Jul 08, 2012
Metal-bodied solid-performing Digicam delivers great-value-for-money!
The Olympus Camedia C-60 collected rave reviews at its launch, now 8-years later(YES EIGHT YEARS LATER!) it still gives today's Anorexic/Plastic-bodied digicams some serious competition.
Firstly there's the lens, an all-glass quality 3 x Olympus Zoom.
Secondly there's the super-fast focus, from the C-60's Hybrid focus system, plus there's the option to have Full-Time Auto-focus.
Thirdly there's Program Exposure/Aperture Priority/Shutter Priority & lastly Full Manual control, (mostly only delivered by today's Digital SLR Cameras.
Fourthly there's a stout metal body to deliver years of picture taking.
My eBay bargain of the year was winning A Boxed-As-New C-60, with all the original Charger, accessory leads, & Manuals still in their Olympus Factory packaging -All for only £36. It really was unused & complete with its original Olympus Camera-feature Decals -!!!
May 25, 2017
Leather Quality protects our Digital Age
Leather is probably man's oldest protective covering. Given that Digital Camera are the latest in Techological Innovation, its a superb marriage that joins man's oldest protective matrerial to protect the most delicate compact cameras.
First announced in about 2005/2007 the DCC-6- case ios a perfect protective pairing for the Canon IXUS 500 HS or 520 HS Digicams. The belt loop is perfect for retaining a compact digicam arounf your waist - if you've got one!
The long fron-flap, with Magnetic catch ensures the camer is very unlikely to leave its leather-lair even at a moderate jogging speed.
If you've spent over £250 on the latest digicam, what better than to rely on a 1000-year-old technology to protect the most functional (and fragile) Digital Photographic Devices. Whereas digital devices usually age discracefully, Real Leather develops a beautiful rich patina that oozes uber-quality with increased age!
Aug 13, 2009
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg - Shirt-Pocket wonder!
The DiMAGE Xg was produced midway through the life of the X-Series Digicams, before the Division was swalled up by Sony in 2006 - which is a bit ironic as the main financialy problems suffered by Konica Minolta in the US market was a class-action lawsuit by disgruntled customers at the failure of hundreds of camera caused by Faulty 4 & 5-megapixel CCDs - which were all down to poorly mounted CCD assemblies shipped by Sony-!!! At least Sony took ownership of the problem by buying the KM digicam division.
The Xg is a great little performer and can easily be held in a one-handed fashion, its 3.2 Megapixel CCD (not the affected CCDs types as above) so you're more likely to find a maturing X-Series camera that still working well years after higher megapixel camers have since died & gone to Landfill Heaven
It can sit in your shirt pocket and instantly spring to readiness (remember is has a folded-path lens that sits vertically in the camera body with a pentaprism at the top directing the light-path out through the lens aperture on the top-corner of the camera, which is covered by a sliding door when the camera is switched off. So it takes no time to ne ready for action - no churning of motors & cams like most slim digicams, who also can have flexible print stress fractures due to flexible circuits folding in & out every time the lens moves/powers up & down.
My only reservation with the Xg is that it doesn't have the external battery charging contacts on the bottom of the body, like the Xt, so batteries have to be extracted from the body to br charged.
Apart from that the Xg is a superb pocket camera with a real optical zoom viewfinder - so no more squinting at LCDs flooded by bright sunlight!
My strapline suggestion would be
Konica Minolta Xg - what are you wearing today?