Concord Eye-Q 5345Z Review

Here's the LCD display in record mode with all possible screen icons shown. The actual amount of screen information shown is dependant on camera settings and you can have a perfectly "clear" view by pressing the DISPlay button several times.

Pressing the DISP button toggles the realtime histogram display

In Manual Focus mode you can adjust the focus from 10cm (3.9in) to infinity in wide angle or 60cm (3ft) to infinity in telephoto using the Left and Right of the 4-way selector. An on-screen distance slider will be displayed.

The NICESHOT mode has 19 pre-defined "scenes" that you can select from to suit your shooting conditions. These scenes will automatically set the appropriate camera functions and values to produce the best possible images.

Select from: portrait, scenery, portrait w/scenery, children, candlelight portrait, party, pet, flower, natural green, sundown, night scene, night scene portrait, fireworks, food, text, collection, monochrome, retro, or twilight.

Movie Mode lets you record up to 60 seconds of 320 x 240 motion video. There is no microphone so the movies are silent. Using the internal 10MB of memory you can record a total of 60 seconds, using a 64MB SD card you can record ~410 seconds, but each clip is limited to 60 seconds. Movie clips are saved in standard AVI format (Motion JPEG).

Recording options:

REC Mode - Normal, NICESHOT, Movie
Self-timer - 2 sec, 10 sec
Size - 2560x1920, 2560x1712 (3:2), 2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1280x960 or 640x480
Quality - Fine, Normal, Economy
EV Shift - Exposure compensation +/- 2EV in 0.3EV steps
White Balance - Auto, Sunlight, Shade, Incandescent, Fluorescent or Manual
ISO - Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400
AF Area - Auto focus area: Spot or Multi
Metering - Multi, Center-Weighted, Spot
Filter - Off, B&W, Sepia, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Pink, Purple
Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Hard
Saturation - Low, Normal, High
Contrast - Low, Normal, High
Flash Intensity - Weak, Normal, Strong
Grid - Off, On
Digital Zoom - Off, On
Review - Off, On

The MEMORY options allow you to memorize the settings of the REC Mode, Flash, Focus, White Balance, ISO, AF Area, Metering, Flash Intensity, Digital Zoom and Manual Focus Position, retaining them from power off to power on.

The SETUP menu options let you number files sequentially, turn the beep sounds on or off, select a startup image, adjust the clock, set the menu language (English, French, German, Spanish or Italian), set the sleep timer (30s, 1m, 2m, Off), set the auto power off time (2m, 5m), Format the memory or perform a system reset to default values.

When adjusting the White Balance settings you can actually "see" what difference there is in the colors of your subject thanks to a live preview.