The Canon 850 with wide angle lens is reviewed as being so so picture quality wise. The 750 is far from perfect in operation. The finepix F40 is superb indoors, but metering/ graining an issue outdoors. The Panasonic TZ3 loses significant detail owing to over agressive noise supression. The Ricoh Caplio6 has bad fringing etc etc. Agreed! I have seen the shots.
Is it unrealistic for an old film camera enthusiast who favours a 20 year old Minolta to expect much in the way of a few good stills from a digital compact running on auto? Are they all merely ' happy snappys' bristling with electronic features? Face recognition for goodness sake. Time to add movies when they outperform a Hasselblad as far as I am concerned! Meanwhile the pixel count continues to rise which is arguably counter productive quality wise. Are there any professionals out there who can advise please?
2007-07-12 02:44:53 · 7 answers · asked by fred35 6 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
I agree. Nothing like a good decent Honeywell Spotmatic or Minolta SRT101 to get some damn fine photos. (And oooh, how about that Nikon F or Nikkormat? Damn, those were great days!!)
What bugs the **it (my censoring) out of me is the limitations of the zooms on these pocket packs of junk. Who wants to have a low angle of 38mm on their camera? Who decided to have only 38mm as the widest on these cameras?
It's very hard to find one with a decent 28mm lens on it. I have started using a digital camera, but not for any real photography. Just snap shots around the house, because of the ease of transfering the photos and printing them out. But for real pictures, I still have a 35mm point-n-shoot which works worlds better for quality of picture.
2007-07-12 05:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by tlworkroom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a professional but I love the Fuji range. I now have a Canon 400D SLR after a little Fuji compact and my lady has a Fuji 550 with zoom which gives amazing results. Go for at least 5 million pixels but when you go over 10 you need some hefty computing power to manipulate.
Edit, after losing some film to a bad processor once, the joy of "instant prrof view" and photo manipulation on the computer beats film for me although I keep my Canon EOS film body alongside the EOS digital body - they use same lens and accessories.
Edit 2, dont rely on digital zoom when choosing. Optical zoom yes but digi zoom is just loss of quality.
2007-07-12 02:50:18 · answer #2 · answered by oldhombre 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-20 23:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can rely on the reviews, but many review writers seem to search for something to complain about.
I used to use an SLR camera, different kinds, slides mostly.
But now I am a happy compact digital compact user.
Try to find someone you know who owns a camera you would consider, and test it yourself.
A lot depends on your wishes and expectations.
A happy Canon digital ixus 700 user.
2007-07-12 07:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by Willeke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-02-14 23:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-12 02:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by Girugamesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice one, "adam d", welcome to the 21st century!!
Panasonic lumix TZ3 every time.
2007-07-12 02:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by A Nonny Mouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋