http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/ Engadget Comments for Canon Powershot E1 reviewed: a little style, not so much substance http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/
Sorry, I don't have anything personal against kaikai, but I do have a general aversion to people that can't type complete sentences.]]>Nov 6th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/i figured full sentences were not a requirement for the internet :(]]>Nov 6th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/]]>Nov 6th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/
Back then, $183 bought you... I don't know, maybe a 1.3 MP Hewlett-Packard camera with CMOS sensor, fix-focus plastic lens, producing blurry images with yucky, washed-out colors? Details and sharpness weren't the issue, *everything* looked bad, and most definitely not only in the lowest price class. I still remember myself looking at the results several chubby"professional" class Sony cameras with elaborate optics, from before '03, being in total disbelief about the appalling fact any random disposable camera could easily surpass them in terms of image quality (under normal conditions).

But oh gee, I'm getting sentimental. I don't care for the pastel-baby-color design, but apart from the pictures being a good bit more grainy and mushy than what I get from my G3, I must confess I don't think they look that bad. And if that quality is really only to satisfy a child, not even one that has (already) developped some photographic ambitions, I really, REALLY feel like a Neanderthal.
A Neanderthal, still having the picture of that atrocious red-yellowish Fisherprice camera carved in one of his mental stone boards.


]]>Nov 6th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Go all out on the surface design, aiming to be cool in some way, but then not bothering to make the product actually good.

]]>Nov 6th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/But DAMN. Did these printouts look GOOD. High contrast, rich colors, excellent sharpness, just about everything you would expect from a photograph that simply looks nice, thanks to a large, very high quality CCD and a generously big Leica fast lens. Oh, and it had a 12x optical zoom thrown in for good measure.

Price of all the goodness? A mere $449.

Did anyone aside from experts give a bloody darn? You guessed it.

Panasonic illustrated a big point. Possibly the most important one ever made in history of digital photography. Sadly, people were too busy celebrating the release of the first 5 mpx cameras to notice.

That's why we will have a ton of 80 mpx cameras with pinhead sized CCDs and flimsy third rate glass optics with the diameter of a rat contact lens in only a few years.]]>Nov 6th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 6th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/
a lot of people out there like the ability to use AA batteries.]]>Nov 7th 2008 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 7th 2008 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.dprguru.com/?model=170018423&mfg=0
]]>Nov 7th 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/Nov 7th 2008 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/canon-powershot-e1-reviewed-a-little-style-not-so-much-substan/I wonder if that new company philisophy will also travel to their semi-pro and pro line, if so; say bye-bye to canon.
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