After weeks struggling with the digital camera I bought while on holiday last year I decided it was time for an upgrade. My previous camera was an Olympus X-42, a low end model but an improvement over my 5 year old Kodak LS443….or so I thought when I bought it.
The LS443 was a good camera when I bought it, 4 megapixles, a distinct upgrade from my original Agfa camera at a mere 1mp. So I figured camera technology had moved on a lot in a few years and the x-42 was 12.2mp so I figured the photo quality would be much better. How wrong I was.
The x42 was perfectly fine outside in good light conditions, in lower light conditions and indoors however, it was terrible. It produced washed out images using the flash and colourless, dark images without the flash. After a few random attempts at changing some of the settings I had control over I figured it was about time I read the manual!
The X-42 doesn’t come with a printed manual of any description except a one sheet quick start guide. THe manual is actually on the CD supplied with the camera in .pdf format. After reading through the manual, and playing around with a few more settings I decided it was time to give up and get a decent camera. After all, I only paid £69 for the X-42 and as they say, you get what you pay for!
After doing some research and reading a few reviews, I decided to replace it with a Samsung IT100. So far, the image stabilisation and a better quality lense have cured the low light problems and I’m getting some decent results with it. It was double the price of the X42 but the performance is much better. So far I’m happy with it, but time will tell.
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