Playback Features
To view previously taken pictures and videos, you can either press the Quick View button or slide the main power switch to Play. Moving to different files can be accomplished by pressing the left and right arrow buttons. You can also jump ahead 10 pictures by pressing the down button or back 10 pictures by pressing the up arrow. Thumbnail view |
 Image regular view |
 Image magnified 4x |
By pressing the zoom controller toward the wide end, you can view a thumbnail screen with 9 images. Conversely, by pressing the zoom controller in the telephoto direction, you can magnify an image up to 4x in 0.5x increments. While an image is magnified, you can move around to different areas of the image by using the directional buttons.
By default, the LCD monitor displays the recording quality and number of each picture. However, to view additional information for an image, you can press the OK/Menu button and select "Info". By doing this, the following information will be added to the display: resolution, exposure compensation, white balance, and file number. Despite which level of information you choose to have displayed, the information will disappear approximately 3 seconds after viewing a picture.
Other than the information option, there are 3 additional options available: Slideshow, Mode Menu, and Erase. The slideshow feature does not have any adjustable values. Instead, the pictures are displayed for approximately 3 seconds before moving to the next image. The Mode Menu contains a few more submenus with options related to playback: Play, Edit, Card, Setup. We have outlined the options below:
| Play | |
| Protect | Off, On |
| Rotate | +90°, 0°, 90° |
| Print Order | Select, All |
The Protect option allows you to tag specific images so that they cannot be erased accidentally. With the Print Order option, you can specify images for printing as well as the number of copies desired. You can also specify whether or not to stamp the time or date on the printed images. The Edit submenu only has one option: resize. You can resize an image to either 640x480 or 320x240. The resized image is saved as a new file. The Card menu only has the option to format the flash card. The Setup menu has the "All Reset" and "Language" options that we already discussed in the Recording Features section. Below are the 3 additional options:
| Setup | |
| LCD Brightness | 15 increments |
| Date/Time | Set |
| Thumbnail | 4, 9, 16 |
The Thumbnail option allows you to specify how many images are to appear on the thumbnail screen during playback.
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Jeff7181 - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
Nice article... would have been nice to see it BEFORE the holidays though ;)stephencaston - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
#4,Unfortunately, when it comes to digital cameras, it is impossible to cover every camera at a specific price point. We had to make choices when picking which cameras to use and ended up choosing three cameras at $150 with very similar features to make the comparisons more relevant.
I did not mean to imply that this article will determine the best camera at $150. The article was meant to compare these three cameras to each other. I have amended the title accordingly to reflect this.
We always encourage people to do as much research as possible before buying a camera. There are so many different things to consider when reviewing digital cameras and each review site focuses on different areas.
PrinceGaz - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
I'd take the Minolta DiMAGE X31 over any of the cameras reviewed any day; it's a lot more compact than them which is what many people desire when out and about, is reported to give a good picture for it's price and size, has lots of features, and at $150 is just as cheap as them. My DiMAGE X20 is a lovely little camera that does everything you could ask of it, and from what I've read the X31 makes a good thing better.I will reiterate a point I made when digicam reviews first appeared on AT, which is that unless you can review *every* model in depth to find which is the best in that category, then you are doing a dis-service to your readers by potentially not even looking at what might be the best camera in that range.
Specialist digicam websites review all cameras so that they can give an informed opinion on any new models, even if that means buying one themselves like AT might do for a computer product that free review samples weren't available for. What AT is doing with digicam reviews is just picking two or three models out of the many available and saying one of them is the best, when better ones you didn't even look at are available. AT does excellent reviews of computer components, but I'm afraid you'd have to be a fool to only use your recommendations when buying a digicam.
orenb - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
The best digital camera at this price point is the Ricoh Caplio RX. 28-100mm zoom. Metal body. Almost no shutter lag. These three don't even come close.Prog.
Joony - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link
The Canon A400 should be in this review...cosmotic - Thursday, December 30, 2004 - link
Again, Kodak EasyShare is turned into an ad link and blends into the background of the table cell.