At $ 350 , the Epson L-500V is almost twice the damage of the Epson PhotoPC L-410 ( January 2005 , ) . amazingly , we like the less expensive television camera ’s pictures better . So , what do you get for two hundred bucks more besides another megapixel ?
The most obvious departure are the L-500V ’s spacious 2.5 - inch LCD ( but at the disbursement of an optical viewfinder ) and rechargeable battery . The oversized , abrupt LCD make it exceptionally easy to read and navigate menus , but the thumbstick is unenviable ( it ’s easy to make a selection when you mean to pilot , and it only moves one extract at a clock time ) . Like the L-410 , the L-500V is a bit bulky for a pouch camera .
You wo n’t find a surfeit of fit fashion in the L-500V , just the distinctive Normal , Landscape , Portrait , Night View , and Night Portrait modes . Manual modal value is throttle to exposure compensation ( which you set via a carte ) , white residual ( there ’s no custom white symmetricalness ) , and ISO ( sensitiveness is from a low 50 to 200 ISO in automatonlike fashion , and from 100 to 400 in manual way ) . you’re able to focus to 1.97 inches in macro musical mode . A fast uninterrupted style lets you take up to three pictures per indorsement until your memory carte is full , but you ’ll need an optional high - speed remembering card .
The movie mode ’s resolution is as in high spirits as 640 - by-480 pixels at 30fps , and you may capture continuously until your memory circuit board is full , but the calibre is mediocre , with mealy video and sapless sound . you’re able to record audio annotation as long as 30 seconds .
We rated people of color and detail Good . Yellows and reds were just slightly off . small-scale oversharpening gave hard edges a faint white halo , but there was little noise and fringing .
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Macworld’s Buying Advice
The L-500V takes good pictures , but most casual shutterbug will prefer the PhotoPC L-410 ’s unspoilt , though broken - resolution , icon at a lower price .
