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Agfa ePhoto CL50 |
Agfa has both a wealth of experience in conventional photography and a consistently strong range of digital cameras. With the ePhoto CL50, the company has eschewed the unconventional shape of the 1680 featured in the last digital camera Labs (issue 51) in favour of a more traditional shape. It won’t win any design awards, but it does feel comfortable to hold.
The view from the top showing the overall “rounded” styling of the camera. There is no positive fingergrip area except for a small rubberized strip on the front for your fingertips. I tended to always be semi-dropping it if not held firmly, be sure to use the wrist strap! The status display on top tells you the usual things, pictures remaining, image quality, flash mode, macro mode, battery power remaining. You’ll note the four unmarked buttons along the top. They are (left to right): Macro/selftimer, QuickReview, Flash mode and Image Resolution.
The camera ePhoto CL50 has traditional for Agfa the form, however it the design and functional features if not is cardinal, rather hardly are advanced. Bent forward and reverse sides with a LCD-screen are looked by a uniform element and it as a whole has the completed and functional kind. The camera has practically no inertia LCD-screen with a diagonal in 5,1 sm (2 inches), which is possible to use as the range viewfinder. “Opening” door above a screen substitutes illumination per sun day and, accordingly, saves energy of batteries.
The CL50 certainly has some nice touches - the high level of control over its settings, the use of natural light to illuminate the LCD and the high level of zoom - but it can’t match the style and ease of use of the Canon PowerShot A50. What’s more, with a street price of around £400, the Minolta DimÅge is cheaper, has better image quality, and unlike the CL50 comes with a mains adaptor as standard.
Features:
| Brand | Agfa |
| Model | Agfa ePhoto CL50 |
| Megapixel | 1.2 |
| Actual Sensor Resolution [Megapixel] | 1.3 Megapixel |
| Sensor Type | CCD |
| Max Resolution [pixel] | 1280×960 pixel |
| Other Resolutions [pixel] | 640×480 pixel |
| Lenses | |
| Optical Zoom | 3x |
| Optical Zoom (35mm equivalent) [mm] | 34 mm-102 mm |
| Wideangle [mm] | 34 mm |
| Tele [mm] | 102 mm |
| Digital Zoom | 2x |
| Aperture Range | 2.8-8 |
| Min Shutter Speed [sec] | 1/2 sec |
| Max Shutter Speed [sec] | 1/500 sec |
| Flash | |
| Internal Flash | yes |
| Type | Fixed |
| External Flash Support | yes |
| Modes | Auto, Fill-in, Anti red-eye, Off |