Compact, lots of features.

Unpredictable autofocus behaviour

We wanted a compact but versatile point and shoot camera for a trip to the national parks in the USA and didn't want to carry my Canon SLR. We bought this camera based on the high review ratings on this site. After processing of more that 300 pictures we were disappointed. At least 10% of the pictures are completely out of focus and the sharpness of the rest is far from perfect. For many pictures the camera focused on an object at the edge of the picture. Many of the pictures were taken with the camera mounted on a miniature tripod, even with the very bright light conditions that you may expect in june/july in Utah/Colorado, so that motion blurr is very improbably. Not worth the money. Next time I'll take my good old Canon T70.
The flash, criticized by so many, isn't so bad. In fact it works out quity handy that you can disable the flash by just pushing it back into the body, instead of fiddling with the microscopic selection buttons.

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Used Canon SLR's (FTb, T70) and various cheap P&S cameras (Fuji, Polaroid).

Features, classic looks

Weight, shoddy construction, poor layout.

This camera may take sharp pictures, but I could not get beyond the poor placement of its controls. The zoom buttons in particular. I'm left handed and found it impossible to adjust the zoom while squinting through the view finder. The flash takes some getting used to but is not as bad as people say it is. You get used to it soon enough. My real frip is with the poor tolerances. The plastic grey cover was not flush with the aluminium body, I could see massive gaps. Both left and right zoom buttons were crooked. All this did not inspire confidence. I don't expect this type of shoddy construction in a $200 camera.

Used the camera for a week and returned it. Will probably go for a Contax or Pentax.

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Haven't used.

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Various P&S products from Olypmus, Minolta & Pentax

Simply to shoot and fun to customize

None so far

Canon Japan introcuded Autoboy Luna 105S with a manual flash slide switch but I am not sure if I like the idea of enabling the flash manually while many people complained about this camera poping the flash out automatically.

The manual said it would disable the flash unit if you push it back on Classic 120 so I don't think pushing it back to disengage the flash is any harmful. I would prefer having an ability to disable the flash than sliding it out and enabling it manually.

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Fast Zoom, Comfortable fit for small hands. Clear, sharp photos. Easy dial selection.

Canon needs to re-think flash location! OK for thumbless users. - Otherwise, no complaints

For the price of this camera, you get a whole lot of punch for the dollar amount spent. To my surprise, some of the photos taken with this camera are equal to the quality of photos taken with an SLR. For a "point and shoot" product it gets a resounding thumbs up. It takes excellent pictures with clarity and sharpness using a nominal amount of effort. It gets my vote for a great camera for the begginer or even as an extra for a seasoned expert! I would recommend this camera without hesitation. Five Stars...

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Nada.

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Mostly SLR user. Canon, Nikon

Easy to use and take a great pictures

AiAF is not so intelligent

I took three and a half rolls of Kodak and fuji films 400 in Japan and got somewhat disappointed with the print results. While some of pictures of landscapes were as good as SLR, many of photos were out of focus for two reasons. Reason 1: The camera locked focus on either foreground which I didn’t want to be focused or background although I had my son and wife standing in the center of the frame. Why would I want to focus the grapes in the background when two people are standing in front of it? or what was this camera thinking to focus on bushes in the foreground when I shot the picture of flower in the center?

I would have not made such a mistake had I brought my SLR with auto focus lens. The color is great and focus in sharp if it is focused on the subject you want. I think start using spot focusing on every mode.

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Olympus u

Mode dial
Fast zoom
Small size
Quiet for a P&S

Slow response at times (slow AF?)
Everything overexposed

We bought this camera based upon exhaustive research, including the reviews on this site of various P&S cameras. I ended up returning the camera due to two problems:

1) Slow response to shutter release (esp. in lower light). My wife and I both "lost" a couple pictures because we started moving the camera, thinking it had finished taking the picture, only to find that it had not snapped the shot yet. To be honest, this may be user error - with the red-eye reduction enabled, the picture is taken a few seconds after the button is pressed. Unlike our current Olympus (which has a "strobe" red-eye reduction), there is no visible indication that the picture is still being taken.

2) The main problem - with a few rolls shot, almost every single picture was overexposed. Two different developers were used on different rolls, and the problem was consistent. It didn't matter whether it was an inside (flash-lit) scene where everything was washed out, or an outside scene where again everything was overexposed.

Based on all the positive reviews we read here, we can only assume that there was a problem with the particular unit we bought. However, this may be an indication of QA / build quality issues. We decided not to chance it with a second unit, mainly based on the #1 observation above. We _do_ like the technology in it, though - too bad our experience was so bad...

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Olympus InfinityZoom