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Review Summary
The DIGIMAX L50, is a 5 MP portable pocket-sized digital camera that provides fast operation speed & a variety of functions. Despite its size it has a 230k-pixel 2.5" large LCD, & 4x digital, 3x optical zooms for a 12x total zoom capacity. It also provides 5x zoom during playback, for detail checking.
The DIGIMAX L50 uses a 230k-pixel high-resolution 2.5" LCD with 16.7 million True Color representation, & wide viewing angle features for superior quality image playback & shot composition.
The powerful video capability of the DIGIMAX L50 functions as a camcorder too. For an enhanced movie shooting experience MPEG-4 is used for a high-compression high-quality video format, recording up to 3-4 times longer. With a 256mb memory card over 1 hour of great video can be recorded. The DIGIMAX L50 can record in VGA (640x480) at 30 fps, to give smoother video & a bigger view of the movie on LCD screens & TV.
The video capability has been improved in the many areas: It has a movie stabilizer to reduce camera shake. By automatic detection & correction of lateral & vertical camera vibrations it delivers even smoother video recording. The DIGIMAX L50 has a continuous video recording feature, with pause & resume video recording in one file.
With video editing capabilities in the camera, it allows savinge a selected part of a movie clip into a new file during playback, & allows you to capture a still image during video playback. You can use the DIGIMAX A50 optical zoom to zoo m in during recording.
The DIGIMAX L50 has special effect functions. Color Effects include B/W, sepia, blue, red, green & negative. Highlight enables you to emphasize a subject by putting its surroundings into soft focus. Composite Shot allows you to divide a shooting scene into 2-4 segments & save them into a single file. Photo Frame allows you a choice from 9 different types of fun photo frames.
The DIGIMAX L50 supports Continuous Shooting of a fast-moving subject, & Auto Exposure Bracketing to shoot a series of pictures with slightly varying exposures. You can edit a picture in a variety of ways, without a PC. The Trimming function allows you to cut an unwanted part of an image & save the rest
The Resizing function lets you recover some of the memory space by resizing & saving images into a smaller size. You can also rotate an image in the desired direction & save it. 11 scene modes are supported: Night Scene, Portrait, Text Recognition, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks & Beach & Snow.
Text Recognition allows you to shoot documents, books, papers & magazines & then extract text from the image taken with the included "Digimax Reader" software. PictBridge50 allows pictures pictures taken with a camera to be directly printed without a PC, & faster transfer rate with USB 2.0. It also has an Album/SlideShow feature including event & date & a a built-in memory (32 MB), & Copy to Card function.