Can I get some feedback about choosing a camera. Been reading lots of reviews, held a bunch of cameras still confused. How big an issue is the lense these days Canon to Panasonic to Sony?
Excellent Image Quality (Often Crop children's pictures)
MINIMAL DELAY from when I push the button to the image capture (I keep missing pictures with my current camera)
Mainly a point & shoot user
Criteria - $500 or under
Image Stabilization
Fairly Long Zoom
View finder (if possible)
Not too big or I won't carry it
Intuitive
I've been reading the reviews, and they have left me confused. Does anyone have an informed opinion?
Panasonic DMC - TZ1 seems to get poor image quality reviews? Any thoughts?
DMC LZ5 - similarily mixed
Sony DSC - H5 too big, and I will never used the SLR features (But I LOVE THE SIZE OF THE LCD Screen)
Help, please?
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Started by Digital Dunce, Jun 15 2006 09:27 PM
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Posted 16 June 2006 - 03:48 AM
These days all the cameras you mentioned have excellent quality lenses, so that's not really an issue, just focal lenght to suit your needs.
Looking at your list of requirements, particularly as you said mainly a point and shoot user I wonder why the Fuji F30 is not on your list?
It has manual shutter and aperture priority giving some manual control. Excellent image quality up to ISO 1600, which is way beyond any other camera. It's small and pocketable and all round a fantastic point and shoot camera with capabilitis for a bit of creativity as well.
The only thing is it does not have image stabilisation, but is that really necesary? With a usable ISO 1600 I believe it is much more practicle that an ISO 200 or at most 400 with an image stabiliser.
Remember image stabilisers only prevent blur from camera shake, not subject movement. A high ISO setting will allow a higher shutter speed taking care of both camera shake and subject movement in your shots, particularly in low light where portraits can look so much nicer with the natural lighting because you don't have to use flash.
Check it out, I believe it may be a very good option for you.
Looking at your list of requirements, particularly as you said mainly a point and shoot user I wonder why the Fuji F30 is not on your list?
It has manual shutter and aperture priority giving some manual control. Excellent image quality up to ISO 1600, which is way beyond any other camera. It's small and pocketable and all round a fantastic point and shoot camera with capabilitis for a bit of creativity as well.
The only thing is it does not have image stabilisation, but is that really necesary? With a usable ISO 1600 I believe it is much more practicle that an ISO 200 or at most 400 with an image stabiliser.
Remember image stabilisers only prevent blur from camera shake, not subject movement. A high ISO setting will allow a higher shutter speed taking care of both camera shake and subject movement in your shots, particularly in low light where portraits can look so much nicer with the natural lighting because you don't have to use flash.
Check it out, I believe it may be a very good option for you.
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