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From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:06:05 -0700
Just returned from a little vacation in which my principal camera was my new Koolpox 5700. Had an OM1 and a few rolls of film for a fail safe back up for the wetness expected in Costa Rica. It turned to not be so wet when we were there - just one short but biblically awesome downpour in an area of the country where it is not supposed to rain. It was a wonderful trip and highly recommended.

The camera is my first serious attempt at digital. I was pleasantly surprised. It was relatively easy to manage considered my old manual brain and its small memory buffer. The controls for the functions most wanted are accessible without resorting to a menu, except for the spot meter. The low light focus was better than stated in most of the reviews. I guess all these people expect to focus in the dark with lasers. For those used to an Oly OM, the slowness of execution made it difficult for decisive moment shots. All in all it was a wonder of ease of use and flexibility compared to that Sony I tried first. I think it really pays to get one of these little gizmos made by a camera manufacturer, like Oly, N*, or C* who understands the ergonomics of still photography, not by a computer/electronics company. The electronic viewfinder takes some getting used to. It is possible to manually focus with it using extreme sharpening applied to the plane of focus. It is weird, but works after a fashion, but the autofocus worked well for me.

It has a nice little feature for handheld macro and telephoto. It is call Best Shot Selector. It allows you to hold down the shutter release and get up to 10 shots(hoping for a steady one) which then get analyzed and the sharpest one is saved to the memory card. However it does NOT work for wild life when the sharpest pic is usually when they have left the frame! :-)

I am working my way through the images. The ones where I did not try to shoot at 280mm(equiv) extension at a 1/4 of second look pretty good. :-)


Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA


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