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Original HPEPSONCanon IXUS 85 IS
ProS• Optical image stabilisation- Easy to use and simple design• Good image quality
ConS• Average-sized 2.5-inch LCD display - Confusing manual mode• Shutter delay with flash could be faster
- Rating: 3.5 on 5
Lens Shootout
Kodak Easyshare M1093 ISProS- Looks good• ISO up to 6400
- Good flash• HD technology
- Colour reproduction is good• Good selection of scene modes PerformanceThis 10.2 megapixel camera has a manual-shooting mode. The images are quite sharp, a little too sharp at times maybe, but sharpness is better than a blur. Colour balance was fairly typical for a mid-range compact, with a strongly saturated tone. Noise was pretty standard,
too. Everything up to ISO 400 was fine, with only minor grain
performance was pretty decent.
B&W Template A4
Print
Similar to the colour
template, the B&W template
is designed to measure the
performance of the individual
printers in terms of their
monochrome printing quality.HP Deskjet 3776
HP clocked 1min28secs
seconds to print the black and
white template. HP’s printing
quality here lagged behind. It
had too much contrast, and the
blacks had grains in the print.EPSON L485
The EPSON printer clocked
1min12secs while printing the
black and white template. The
overall print quality was decent,
however the reproduction of
the blacks were much lighter
than the actual template.HP EPSON0102030405060708090100
B/W Template
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