Review on 📸 Sony DSC-F828 8MP Digital Camera - Enhanced with 7x Optical Zoom for Improved Imaging by John Hattalli

Ignoring its many features, my review of the Sony F828 digital camera is based on its ability to capture colors in a range that exceeds the capabilities of most cameras. We grow tropical water lilies. Water lilies and beardless irises, which can have flowers in the bluish-pink, violet, violet and reddish-blue range that both the Nikon Cool Pix and Olympus C-765 failed to capture. One Nikon did a good job of capturing greens and non-red blues, while another did a good job of capturing non-bluish reds through to yellow. The Olympus was sometimes pretty good at capturing both ends of the color spectrum, but was terrible in the problematic area. In desperation, I attached colored chips to a piece of cardboard at the problem area, and my wife and I went to a discount store that stocked a wide variety of working digital cameras and looked at a test board with each one. Some might have had color settings that we didn't try, but without adjustment, none of them seemed better than our existing cameras, and some were worse. In desperation, I grabbed my old Pentax K-1000 film camera from storage and used it to photograph a Fujifilm 200 test card in various lighting conditions. The photos, which came about after quite a lot of processing, were disappointing, since all the colors looked rather dull and the problematic color tones were not so good. I almost gave up trying to capture colors in the problematic area when I came across a post online of a woman having trouble rendering purple colors, but claimed that a friend of mine is using a Sony F828 to take photos with the correct purple colors and could send by email. So Sony stopped making them and bought a used one. We didn't get to test the camera with photos of flowers in winter, but the shots of our test samples and full set of Crayola crayons were impressive. On the test card, the camera captured the problematic colors quite well and we were able to adjust individual colors by adjusting the color balance, although it should be noted that adjusting a single color can distort other colors somewhat. In addition to fairly good color capture in the problematic area, all 24 colors of the Crayola pens looked good in the photos, especially those in the blue to red and purple ranges. Some people will undoubtedly not appreciate the fact that the camera is large. , heavy and bulky. It definitely can't be put in a pocket or purse, but it looks like it will do what we need. Karl Leach