Sony H1 samples - very impressed

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Andi,
Were nice. I was surprised how the full shot looked so much better then
the thumb print.
Paul



Andreas Buchner wrote:
> On saturday I got my new DSC-H1 as a backup solution for my DSLR equipment.
> Yesterday I visited the "Kaltenberger Ritterspiele" (kinda mediaval knight
> tounament) with the H1. It was a very rainy day and much darker than the
> images suggest.
>
> Some og the higher and full tele shots were OOF, but when it stopped
> raining the AF was fast and pecise again. So I left my 350D with the 70-200
> 4.0 L in the car ;-)
>
> I was very impressed with the response of this tiny and cheap camera. See
> the fighting knights riding with full speed and the splittering lances?
>
> http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos/kaltenberg_2005
>
> Enjoy! But please no critics yet since this was my very first shooting
> without having read a single word in the manuals ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Andi

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"Andreas Buchner" <anbucx-nus@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> On saturday I got my new DSC-H1 as a backup solution for my DSLR
> equipment.
> Yesterday I visited the "Kaltenberger Ritterspiele" (kinda mediaval knight
> tounament) with the H1. It was a very rainy day and much darker than the
> images suggest.
>
> Some og the higher and full tele shots were OOF, but when it stopped
> raining the AF was fast and pecise again. So I left my 350D with the
> 70-200
> 4.0 L in the car ;-)
>
> I was very impressed with the response of this tiny and cheap camera. See
> the fighting knights riding with full speed and the splittering lances?
>
> http://www.pbase.com/anbuccos/kaltenberg_2005
>
> Enjoy! But please no critics yet since this was my very first shooting
> without having read a single word in the manuals ;-)

I'm very impressed too ! .. Looks indeed very much like the pictures on
dpreview for this camera ..