I find Steve's reviews to be pretty good. This one reads like a press release though, so I do take it with a grain of salt. Better to look at the metareview.
As for the "why this camera" question, it appeals to me primarily for the 5x zoom and image stabilization, combined with the pistol form factor and flip-out LCD. Good video quality is actually not as easy to find in a camera as you might think - lots of cameras cheap out on it or put limits on it, which this doesn't appear to do - good framerate and excellent playback, no limit on the size of the recording, stereo sound, etc. As a video device it's not going to be a replacement for a DV cam, but as a camera with solid video capabilities and what seems like good still-image quality, it looks like it could be a great device.
That said, I'm not prepared to spend $600 on it. $400 is my pricepoint on a great camera, so when it drops down that low, I'll probably buy it or something very similar.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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I find Steve's reviews to be pretty good. This one reads like a press release though, so I do take it with a grain of salt. Better to look at the metareview.
As for the "why this camera" question, it appeals to me primarily for the 5x zoom and image stabilization, combined with the pistol form factor and flip-out LCD. Good video quality is actually not as easy to find in a camera as you might think - lots of cameras cheap out on it or put limits on it, which this doesn't appear to do - good framerate and excellent playback, no limit on the size of the recording, stereo sound, etc. As a video device it's not going to be a replacement for a DV cam, but as a camera with solid video capabilities and what seems like good still-image quality, it looks like it could be a great device.
That said, I'm not prepared to spend $600 on it. $400 is my pricepoint on a great camera, so when it drops down that low, I'll probably buy it or something very similar.