Jenoptik 8 Megapixel Camera Review - Internal Memory and Battery
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The camera has an internal memory of 32MB, which puts it ahead of most other cameras in the sub £200 market, but when taking full 8MP resolution shots this is very quickly eaten up. You can take a maximum of just six photos in 8MP and high-quality mode and each picture is a whopping 3264x2448 pixels and about 3.5MB in size. As the resolution drops, so in turn do the dimensions and file size, thus enabling you to store more internally. As a guide, the manual recommends that pictures taken at the full 8MP are suitable only for printing on paper sized larger than standard A4, so most of the time you'd be using the 5MP setting or lower anyway.
Battery life is excellent in my opinion. With two standard AA batteries, you can take up to around 40 pictures, with flash used in most and a couple of short videos before the battery indicator starts to blink, plus you can look at all of the pictures and video and generally mess about with the menu settings and features. Very often I've used cheaper cameras that have literally devoured batteries, giving you maybe five full-flash photos before needing replenishment. The camera can also recharge batteries using the AC input adapter, although you must buy this cable separately
The camera uses an 8 megapixel CCD (Charge-coupled device) to capture images, and the quality of pictures taken with this camera is excellent. Video capture is not quite as good, with some graininess or pixilation detected even at the highest quality. It really is easy however, for anybody, even a complete photographic newbie like me to capture high-quality shots with this camera.
Settings-wise, there's plenty you can adjust via the friendly and intuitive GUI. As mentioned above you can choose different resolutions depending on the format your finished picture is going to end up in, going from a lowly 2MP for A5 prints, 4MP for A4 prints, 5MP and 3:2 for wide-aspect computer display and 8MP for prints larger than A4. Additionally, you have three quality settings which relate to how much compression is used when the pictures are stored, with maximum quality representing minimum compression. Depending on your location and the present conditions, such as the amount of light or type of light, you also have a degree of control over the amount of exposure, the amount of white correction, the sharpness of the image, the ISO (light-sensitivity) setting, and you can select from up to ten preset scenes that vary the settings based on common conditions.
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