Specifications
Let us look at the incredible specifications of this tiny beast in a bit of detail.
A fully fledged digital camera with a huge 0.96″ screen (that is 2.43cm for our European friends).
A wide-angle, 16:9 (ish) aspect ration lens that gives 130 degrees view.
A huge 1080p resolution in video mode (yes, it can take videos!).
A huge selection of photograph modes from 1mp through to 12mp (see notes below).
A large 300 mAh battery for hours of fun (well, 50-180 minutes).
An optical viewfinder (should you not want to use the back screen).
A built in flash.
Video, Stills and Voice modes.
Built in filters.
An endless list, that brings joy to your photography! As mentioned above, the camera allows you to choose a stills resolution of between 1mp and 12mp, however, in reality, it is a 1mp, sold as a 2mp interpolated. No matter what mode you choose (I shot in 12mp and 1mp in my brief testing), the images are basically 1mp, upscaled. Weirdly, the 12mp image also change the aspect ratio and are a bit distorted.
Image Quality
I had high expectations for this best of a camera… Oh wait, sorry, I was thinking of something else. The image quality is shit. Nostalgic and classic image quality are words that should have been replaced with shit and a f**king mess.
You are not getting good image quality with this camera. It has terrible resolution, terrible dynamic range, it flares at the slightest sign of light and the in-built flash could not light up an object it was next to in the darkest of rooms.
Here are a few examples, all resized to make them look much better than they are. Actually, when I viewed them on the phone, they did not look too bad (ok, they were bad, but not big-screen bad).