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You experience with Contax 4UR?

Feb 6, 2005 1:38AM PST

Just curious as to anyone's experience with the Contax 4UR. I was excited to get this camera but not terribly impressed with its performance. I took the same shots with my HP 720 (3.3mp) and the Contax 4UR, with the same settings (auto for both, adjustments for both, etc) -- the HP consistently generated much better images. The size of the Contax was awesome, as was its high speed shooting function -- but the poorer image quality was bothersome.

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The proof is in the images. If they are poor, so is the
Feb 6, 2005 10:24AM PST

camera no matter what it looks like. I never heard of the camera. I wouldn't buy an unknown item.

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Contax 4UR
Feb 6, 2005 11:57AM PST

The Contax 4UR appears to be the European version of the Kyocera SL400R camera.

Since you are not impressed with its picture quality, but are looking for a very small camera with a large LCD here are a couple of alternatives:

Canon SD300
Sony T1
Sony (Europe only) - T11, T3, and the newest T33.

Here is a side-by-side look at their specifications:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=canon_sd300%2Ckyocera_sl400r%2Csony_dsct1%2Csony_dsct11%2Csony_dsct3%2Csony_dsct33&show=all

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Good experience - best 4 mp digicam in the world !?!?!
Jun 30, 2005 4:04AM PDT

If you take pictures with the standard setting, you'll be disapointed. But: Set mode to Normal (no Sport, portrait etc.) - then sharpness to +3 and chroma to +1 and ISO to 50. You will then receive pictures with shapness and contrast, that will make your viewers/guests say Whooooop!!!
So good luck - after all, Carl Zeiss T* lenses still are the best.