So, we purchased this BenQ camera from Montevideo to replace the Canon A710 which I have been using happily for more than four years. At US$130, it was the cheapest model available, good enough until I’m back home to shop for a real one. This camera comes with a very bad menu and an even worse CCD sensor, but with many funny (and useless) shooting modes like “beauty enhancer”, “smile catcher” etc.
However, there is one “feature” giving me more trouble than any other, that is unpredictability: I can shoot three pictures from the same position and with the same settings and still get different results each time. Quality and durability shouldn’t be expected either, as the display got cracked the following day. And since the camera lacks an optical viewfinder, framing will be, from now on, a matter of chance…
