Is a 'Schneider lens' any good for a digital camera?

HappySad

Looking to get this camera. Is a 'Schneider lens' a good make lens?

Looking at this camera
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5591215/c_1/2%7Ccategory_root%7CPhotography%7C14419436/c_2/3%7Ccat_14419436%7CDigital+cameras+and+packages%7C14419441.htm?Price+Cut=1


Also how many pictures can you store on 4 gb & gb? What about how much video? This is for this 10 meg camera?

ManAtHome

Pretty sure they were more known for enlarger lenses in the UK in Ye Goode Olde Dayes. They were used in some Kodak digital cameras with mixed results, although with digicams it's difficult to isolate lens and electronics problems (poor lens/great elecs gives similar results to great lens/poor elecs).

WB500 is aka HZ10W in US-land - review as part of a group test here http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/q209grouplongzoom/page6.asp

gingerscot

ManAtHome wrote: »

Pretty sure they were more known for enlarger lenses in the UK in Ye Goode Olde Dayes. They were used in some Kodak digital cameras with mixed results, although with digicams it's difficult to isolate lens and electronics problems (poor lens/great elecs gives similar results to great lens/poor elecs).

WB500 is aka HZ10W in US-land - review as part of a group test here http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/q209grouplongzoom/page6.asp

damn, was just posting this link when I noticed you had! Yeh, this site is very well respected, great reviews. Generally over the top for most peoples needs though. It's gives it a pretty good rating for the price.

It's worth noting that often the major companies, (Sony, Samsung etc) buy the rights to have these fancy germany lens companies names for their lens but in actually fact the companies have had little to do with the actually lens. Unfortunately people are taken by the exotic germany name and the they now that perfectly well.

kwikbreaks

Unless you want it immediately you can easily save £25 (possibly less post) on that price..

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=Samsung+WB500&hl=en&scoring=p&sa=N&lnk=pruser&price1=150&price2=

or £171 freepost from Amazon

Usually Argos is not a good place to buy consumer electronics

totalsolutions

>Also how many pictures can you store on 4 gb & gb?
Did you Google first??

http://www.picstop.co.uk/pdf/image_count.htm