Samsung Digimax V70

[est50]

Does anyone have any experience with this camera. It seems to have a lot of the features necessary for digiscoping and it has threads on the body on the outside of the lens that should make it easy to fabricate a threaded attachment to the scope. The 7 MP setting should allow for a little more zoom back at the computer with cropping. I'm not too concerned about the larger file size taking up a more hard drive space (memory keeps getting cheaper).

Any advice or experience would be appreciated. I'm planning on using it with a Pentax 80ED.

Thanks

[yossi]

The camera should work with a scope, provided an adapter is made. I saw some image samples coming out of the V700, I liked the sharpness, I didn't like the low ISO noise - that even at ISO 50 is quite visible. You can see some samples at DPREVIEW and judge for yourself. See here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/samsungv700/page10.asp
If you can live with the noise - it's a fine camera.

[est50]

Thanks for the reply, but the link included in the post deals with the V700, not the V70. The two cameras may have the same guts, but the V70 has a swivel screen which the V700 does not have. I don't know if there are any other differences.

Does anyone know if these are basically the same cameras?

Thanks

[yossi]

You are absolutely right, sorry. One reads what he is familiar with - and the names are very similar. I assumed it was a typo.
On the face of it they look the same, but I can't be sure.
We'll wait for someone who knows the V70.

[steveblain]

A friend of mine has a V50 - which is basically the same, just has five megapixels rather than seven - the results are actually very good indeed.

The only drawbacks are its slow speed and annoying extra sharpening the camera employs to the resulting image. However, dispite this the results print up well to 14 x 10 inches.

The bonus with this camera is the remote control - you just turn the camera to multi-shot and use the two second delay and keep on clicking - it does three shots in quick sucession without you having to touch it.

Good luck