How To Test A Camera In The Store

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 05:01 PM

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#2 Gil2006

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:31 PM

What have you done to these slide shows? I don't get any images and the button to go to the next slide is missing. They used to work just fine.

#3 peterblaise

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:25 AM

Nix the slide shows -- they fail almost every time I visit, and I have to do a manual work-around.

#4 peterblaise

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:33 AM

Great tips on testing and comparing cameras:

Photograph the face of a stop watch to time how long it takes to get the first picture immediately when first turning the camera on, then also time how long it takes to get a second picture after the camera has been turned on.

I tried two cameras and one took only 1 second to get the first picture immediately after first turning the camera on, the other camera took 10 seconds before it could take it's first picture -- wow!

Comparing the same cameras, the first camera took 1/5th of a second to capture each subsequent picture, and the second camera took 2 seconds to capture each subsequent picture.

There are many other criteria to compare, but at least I now know more about different compromises between different cameras models.

Click!
Love and hugs,
Peter Blaise