I've had my W60 for a few days now, but unfortunately being so busy at work (and it raining on all my days off since I got it) I haven't had much of a chance to play with it.
Well, here are my first impressions.
Image quality from ISO 50 to 400 is acceptable for a point and shoot. 400 and up starts to get very noisy, and backgrounds become quite grainy. In bright sunlight, colours and detail are acceptable, in low light it's another story.
Focusing is slow, but seems very accurate. In "Face recognition" mode, it will focus and ajust aperture on the face in the pic, and that works quite well!
The build seems solid, and I have mixed feelings about not having a protruding lens. Its nice that it doesn't get in the way, but I find myself sticking my fingers in the lens a lot, and will often have a finger in a corner of a photo
Size wise it's barely half an inch longer than my old Optio S6.
Waterproofing is good, no leaks after a few hours in a fish bowl. Will test this in more detail next week on the beach at Scout camp.
Movie mode... oh movie mode... what were they thinking?
Movie mode in this camera is a mixed bag. First of all, the AVI video is NOT using DiVX or XvID compression... it is saved using the DV codec! That makes for massive video files.
Second, since the auto focus/zoom mechanism is inside the body of the camera, if you leave the auto focus on while shooting a video, you hear constant crackling as the auto-focus ajusts. On the other hand, if you turn it off, your video is out of focus...
Thats a shame as this cam is "capable" of producing some awesome quality video, up to 1280x720 @ 15fps or 640x480 @ 30fps!
Well, thats all for now... I'll be posting pictures soon.
Pat