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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Norcent DCS-1050 Replacement Battery Found, June 18, 2008
A number of people have been asking about the correct replacement battery for the Norcent 1050. It uses a Minolta NP-900 battery. Same as the Norcent 520 camera. Just make sure when you order a replacement from who ever that you get one rated at least 820maH - which is what came with mine. I purchased a 1000maH hi-capacity battery and it works great and lasts longer than the supplied battery. Most NP-900 batteries are 650 - 700maH, so you need to buy a higher capacity battery - they cost only a few dollars more (about $15 total cost online) Overall the camera takes very good pictures, as good as any 10 megapixel camera. Shutter lag is noticable, but this camera doesn't claim to be a $300 camera. For about $80 US, you can't go wrong. Hope this helps those looking for a battery replacement.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A decent little camera for a great price, May 20, 2008
You definitely get what you pay for! This camera is a steal...10MP camera for just over $100 (there seems to be a second version of it on amazon that is from other sellers at $60 and I got mine for $99 on ebay). It comes with a battery recharger, UBS line to download pictures to your computer, AV cables (haven't figured out what those are for yet), camera case, camera strap and (I think) a couple of other cords.
That being said, I haven't made up mind 100% on this camera.
Pros:
1. Definitely a great price.
2. Camera is very lightweight but doesn't seem fragile
3. There are a few bells and whistles including auto focus, redeye reduction, macro, image backgrounds and colors and more
4. Fairly straightforward to use
5. There are multiple quality options for picture taking to maximize number of pictures stored; from VGA all the way up to 10MP
Cons:
1. Camera battery is not a standard battery that you can find anywhere (ie AA, AAA) in case you wanted to pick up a spare---you will have to go farther afield than your local 711.
2. Camera battery life seems fairly short, although I may have broken some cardinal rule about letting it drain fully or when you should first charge it.
3. The autofocus, while helpful for clear pictures, is a pain in the ---. The lighting and angle of the camera have to be just so before you hear the pleasant beep and blue box that tells you it is OK to take a nice picture. Otherwise, the pictures seem to turn out at least slightly blurry around the edges (if you haven't been given the all clear and take the picture anyway). Also, I have tried pointing the camera straight down and got an OK on the autofocus but the pic still came out blurry. Perhaps my hands were shaking at that angle, but in this case, at least, the anti-shake function didn't work either. I have yet to play with autofocus.
All in all, a very nice camera for the price, but there are much better cameras around if you are willing to spend a bit more.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good budget camera, takes some work to get great photos, June 25, 2008
Quick summary...
This camera is definitely worth $80, especially if you're a casual photographer and not planning on printing all your photos. It suffers in low light but outdoor, daytime photos are very high quality.
Pros:
- Solid build, doesn't feel like it's going to break
- 3.0" LCD is nice, high viewing angles from left, right, and top
- Quickly turns on and off
- Tons of configuration options and features, refer to the manual for a little clarification (more details below)
- Most automatic settings have accessible manual overrides
- Outdoor/flash photos are generally very high quality
- Video quality is very impressive
- On-screen display is very informative
- "Delete mode" allows photos to be deleted with a single click which is great when deleting many photos
- Works with 4GB SanDisk Extreme III SDHC card
Cons:
- Auto ISO, focus, and shutter speed for low light, no-flash photos usually results in bad photos (more details below)
- Zoom is noisy (if recording a video, the mic is muted while zooming)
- Battery life seems too short, read other reviews for a replacement
- Tripod hole is too shallow, I have to use a shim to mount this on my tripod
- Internal memory holds only 1 full-sized photo (obviously you will need an SD card)
- Video file size is very large (about 70MB per minute due to M-JPEG codec)
- No viewfinder but your nose would smudge the nice LCD anyway
More details...
The camera allows you to override a lot of settings, the most useful for me have been ISO and shutter speed. The shutter speed goes as fast as 1/2000s which was fast enough to capture a photo of water droplets coming out of a fountain with no motion blur.
Sometimes it can be painstaking and quite aggravating to get print quality photos without a tripod. The automatic settings of the camera make low light photos particularly difficult, especially when avoiding the flash. The Auto ISO setting goes up to 1600 which is way too high for any shot - the entire photo will have small colored blotches on it. Unfortunately, the camera chooses ISO 1600 very often in medium and low light.
Also, it tends to choose a longer shutter speed than necessary which results in blurry images. The shutter speed that the camera chooses is displayed at the bottom of the screen which makes it easy to know when you either need to hold very still or override the shutter speed.
For the casual photographer, most of these low light photos will still look OK on the camera, but they're not so great on the computer. Using the flash will help, although even with the flash I frequently have trouble with blurry photos.
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