Best digital camera
 

We are in the market for a new digi camera and have set a budget of around (Give or take a bit) $500.

Currently we have an ancient Fuji finepix 2mp jobby and are keen to stay with Fuji but are open to suggestions.

Anyone bought a new camera lately and are you happy or not?

What would you buy if you were looking now?

Cheers.

Slim.

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Just take a course in water-colour painting, buy an easel and some paints, and then simply illustrate any scene you with to 'photograph'. It's cheaper, plus you may be able to sell on your works of art at a later date.




Hoping this reply is as helpful as the many, highly intelligent responses to threads you've made over the last couple of months ...

:lol:

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Just wondering if you are normally a dickhead or if you make a special effort on the internet? :blink:

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have a trawl through here mate
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews.php

i know its an amercian site but they must have some uses :rofl:

dont they ??

i`m in the process of upgrading from my canon ixus 500 and trying to decide between the canon g7 and the panasonic dmc tz3
mmm mmm decisions decisions


have fun :thumbup:

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Just bought a sony dsc-n2 10 mp, 3' touch screen, 3x zoom which is a bit crap, menus are very easy to navigate with touch screen.
Sony also had a photo printer on offer at £50 Then you send them the receipt & they send you £50 back.
This camera was in Argos for £350, but in my local camera shop it was up for £249, who says bigger is better?
Would recomend this camera as a good, easy to use, family friendly product.

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Have a look here http://gadgetshow.five.tv

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Check out www.dpreview.com

Remember you get what you pay for, the price of electronics comes down but the price of good optics doesn't. No point having an 8mp sensor when it's got a crap lens in front of it.

And avoid the really small cameras.

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Nearly right, I make a special effort for dickheads ...

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My wife recently bought a Fuji F30 after we read some reviews. Have to say that she hasn't been disappointed. The battery just goes on and on and on. I think she has had it about 3 months, taken 2 - 300 + photos, mostly with flash on and it still has 3 bars on the battery indicator. Takes the XD cards which I think are common for Fujis and I think it had some internal memory....

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Couple of sites you may find helpful:-

http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html

http://www.dcresource.com/index.shtml

I have a Kodak LS 755
5mp / 3X zoom / Palm of hand compactness.

Pictures are not too bad but wouldn't recommend it.
Doesn't cope well with night pictures.
Takes ages to "wake up" when you turn it on.
Very slow shutter speed.
Slow recovery between pictures.

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Thanks for all the helpful replies. Most of them are really good. :)

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I got a Sony last year, was a DSC-50 and I'm really pleased with it. The Canons are also really good (the Ixus/Ixy range). My ex-GF bought one of the Fuji waterproof ones from here last year, it was very good, and a bargain. www.digitalcameras.com.au/

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I have a Canon IXUS 750. I really love it. It's small but very nifty and solid. It features 7.1mp and 3x lens. I like that I can carry it everywhere I go in my handbag and pull it out for an impromptu snap. The quality of my photos are excellent but that could be me :thumbsup: The battery life is pretty decent too - it comes with a battery charger. I paid $500.

If you like a lot of control over your photos though I would go for a digital SLR e.g. Canon Rebel but that would work out exxy as you have to lay out for lenses etc to do it justice.

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I got a canon sureshot s3, £300 ..x12 optical zoom, they through in an extra 256mb card and case for the money to... very nice..Lots of places have them reduced now as they are 'last years' model.. It might be worth considering an older model as you'll get a better camera for your money

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Would agree with this I have a old sony DCS-s75 3.3 mega with carl zeiss lens also have canon iXus 50
Both have pro cons, sony definitely takes better pictures but is very slow ie shutter lag so for kids shots it not great but the newer sonys are much better
The canon is better for movies and is much faster.

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Hi, bought my dearest the IXUS 850. Brilliant!

it has the larger CCD, and a wide angle lens. Avoid the 900 which has a higher pixel count, but pixels + small CCD = noise.

Pete

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My father has just bought the new Panasonic with a true 28mm lens. If you like taking views then I would certainly take a look at it as it means you get quite a lot more in the shot than a standard digital camera. Not sure how much it is but he's a real photo buff having had SLR cameras for at least 40 years and the quality of this has even impressed him. Its also tiny (not much bigger than my V3 mobile phone and has some anti shake technology which actually seems to work. The quality of the pictures he sent me was amazing and the difference compared to his Sony (DSC-P10 I think) was huge..

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Panasonic are really going to be pushing their cameras this year so expect to see more of them about

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Sony F828. 2.2Gig flash card, 2.2Gig microdrive - yes!!!!!

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony...ntview-001.jpg

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I use an Olympus C-7000. Few years old now, but a great camera.

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Panasonic FZ20 12x optical zoom & leica lens.

Photos stored onto an SD card.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=344821&is=REG

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I got a C-8080W not bad but the auto focus is crap in low light and the manual focus is worthless. Would have a paid a little bit more for an SLR but the OH wanted the video function :unsure:

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Canon 30D with Sigma 17-70mm lense.

Totally awesome.

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Yep, it sucks in low light. Not found a digital camera that is any good in low light. Ended up using a mini tri-pod with my Olympus.

Maybe someone knows one that is?

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I am considering this camera. Anyone got one or know anything about them?
I can get one for less than $400 at the moment and the standard price is $550

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/dig...0fd/index.html

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Canon Powershot A710. 7.1 mp and 6x OZ. Love it. Got it through photo continental - www.photocontinental.com.au who were really helpful. Can't remember how much it was, most of it was paid by our insurance company. Also used dpreview for more info.

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Canon Powershot A620 here. 7.1 mp, 2Gb memory card, 4x optical zoom & 4x digital zoom.

Used it for the photos in this thread.

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