Jenoptik 8 Megapixel Camera Review - Special Effects and Features
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As well as the quality and condition settings described above, you also have the option of using one of a limited number of 'special' effects such as taking black & white pictures, sepia tone image or negative art, which inverts the light & dark areas of a shot to give a negative picture. I had loads of fun with the last effect, taking pictures of my sister and making her look like something out of The Grudge.
Once the picture has been taken, you can also make a limited amount of adjustments to it using the camera, without having to download it to a computer. You can rotate, flip and resize images, and can also apply the above special effects in addition to converting in image into a mosaic composition effect. You can also use PhotoRite, an advanced automatic image-enhancement application, to correct common problems such as under-exposure, poor contrast, color shift or uneven illumination. All of this can be done without even setting foot near a computer!
In addition to these editing options, you also have several methods of printing your pictures; you can connect to your PC via the USB interface and download the pictures to your PC to print in the good old fashioned way, you can use PictBridge to connect via USB directly to a printer, or if you have a direct print compatible printer, you can use DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) on the camera to specify pictures on an SD card and then insert the SD card directly into the printer (or the public terminal at your local image processing centre).
The camera makes use of the DCF format to specify image information and the directory structure of any SD cards in use. This is a popular media protocol and means that you can view pictures on your camera and view them on any other DCF compatible device.
The PhotoImpression software that also comes on the CD is pretty standard; you can use the software to acquire images not just from your camera but from a scanner or video camera as well, and once acquired you can do all of the standard editing stuff like cropping, rotating, etc. Probably the best feature is the ability to add decorated borders to your images and to superimpose your photos into existing pictures; adding perhaps your spouse's face into a picture of a prize-winning bull-fighter or jet plane pilot. Your kids will have hours of fun using this feature. You'll probably install it and forget it even exists.
Other features include the multi-function flash, which operates in auto-flash mode, red-eye reduction mode, full flash, or slow flash. A sound-record mode for recording WAV format sound clips is also part of the package, as is a sensor that displays a 'shaky' icon if the image is going to be blurred.
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