One love a day - #001: Casio QV 2800 UX

It's the first digitally cam I'd bought and it has a few very special features which I don't found at others so I staid with it from 1997 till now even it had just 2 MP:

- The display could rotate 270°. It was great to take photos on a standing in a stadium so you could take photos of objects in front of you and hold the came above your head and you could still see what you would taken on the display.

- It has a 8-optically zoom, from 40 to 320 mm so it perfectly fits my needs to take photos in stadiums.

- the macrofunction was great - you could take photos of things which are just one cm away from the lense - f.e. a fly stepping at the lense.

- the pics are pretty good - not muddy in any case, mostly clear colour and no need of editing it in gimp or photoshop.

- Even it has a great zoom you could put it as it was in the pocketcase - everything was closed, no dust (and you could see much of them at the cam...) could get inside cause everything was pretty closed. You could take photos on rainy days whitout danger it get damaged by water. It's an all-wheater-cam. :-)


I would sell it again - if casio will offer it with about 5 MP - but they won't... So I buy a Fuji Finepix S5600 now - with some of the features my casio already has - but without the option to rotate the lense - and let me say - I miss this functionality after one day without them.

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