{"id":5878,"date":"2012-06-21T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2012-06-21T06:47:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:47:47","slug":"konica-lexio-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"Konica Lexio 70"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Konica Lexio 70 was introduced in 2000 and thankfully wasn’t the hope for the new millennium because despite having good specifications on paper it’s let down by a lens that creates images unsafe for viewing.\u00a0 Perhaps not quite that bad but I would include this camera in the Lo-Fi category along with plastic lens cameras just because of the distortion and ugly bokeh<\/p>\n

A weird thing about the Konica Lexio 70 is that when it focuses the viewfinder framing changes with the lens focus movement, I can’t tell if the image is captured with the new framing after this change of view.\u00a0 Also\u00a0a design fault with this camera is the lens cover\u00a0on\/off switch.\u00a0 It performs it’s on off\u00a0 function at the most inopportune time with\u00a0the slightest movement of the lens cover.<\/p>\n

You can see in the following image that the bokeh is horrible, as this is the only Lexio 70 I have to test I don’t want to make any presumptions but I\u00a0will, I doubt it gets much better. It also has some weird pincushion distortion at the wide end that isn’t even across the frame. I found another persons set on Flickr had the same distortion so I believe it’s a characteristic of the camera.\u00a0 This appears most obviously with straight lines that\u00a0become stretched upwards\u00a0towards the edges.\u00a0 This may be caused by the aspherical elements in the lens and is much more dramatic than with a simpler lens design.<\/p>\n

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What I do like about it is that although it resets to full auto after powering off and on it does remember the last setting you had selected so that when you press the mode button it jumps to that one, which can be any of the eight over rides it provides.<\/p>\n

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As it\u00a0affords a\u00a028mm focal length at the wide end, which is somewhat rare in a point and shoot,\u00a0 it’s worth picking one out of the thrift store pile for a couple dollars.\u00a0 \u00a0That is as long as you know the limitations.<\/p>\n\n\t\t