My wee samsung digital has given up the ghost i think, so i,m on the prowl for a new camera . i had a canon ixus before the samsung wich was a great camera far better then the samsung ,so has anybody got any advice on any other camera to look at ? i know very little about photography as you all know already lol,i need a camera that is very simple to use , tough, is good at close up pics and landscapes and will not burst the bank .
New digital camera advice needed ?
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I keep hearing good things about the fuji finepix. I'll be watching this thread with interest as I am after one myself.
Depends on how much you want to spend - but I got a Canon Powershot SX220 for around £200 a few months back and the picture quality and zoom function are absolutely fantastic.
Wanted a compact with a really good optical zoom - and this seemed to be the best.
Wanted a compact with a really good optical zoom - and this seemed to be the best.
I used to use 35mm SLRs and these days I use digital SLRs, so compacts havent been my thing. Maybe thats my loss: often I wish I had something small enough to put in a pocket. Personally, whatever the type of camera Id tend to look at what people who also sell good SLRspeople like Nikon, Canon, and Olympusare putting out. (Not that people newer to cameras like Fuji and Sony arent worth a look, too.) Im not surprised you said your Canon was so good. One important thing is the quality of the lenses, and with Canon thats what youre going to get.
At one timeprobably stillthe camera makers used to try to sell on the number of megapixels on the sensor. But thats a bit of a how longs a piece of string thing:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/res-demyst.shtml
People like to fasten on something and preferably something that can be quantified. You get the same thing with computers, so there used to be a fascination with specsspeed of the processor and so on. But if the build quality of PCs from Brand X is useless, and the percentage of units thatre actually dead on arrival is high, it really doesnt matter if its shoddy products have better numbers on paper for processor speed, disk size and so on than someone elses. Apple have turned this on its head by coming out with the iPad which isnt fast (because you cant get a fast processor in there) and hasnt massive storage space (because it doesnt use a traditional spinning hard disktoo delicate for a portable), but which is really well-designed and well-built and easy, self-evident and fun to use through the touch interface. Its not about the specs of the device: its about the experience of using it.
Id not pay too much attention to specs but look for something from the kind of maker that gets cameras in the way that Apple gets computing devices. Is the glasswarethe lensgood? Is the body nice and solid, a comfortable shape to hold with the parts fitting wellgood fit and finish? Are the controls in sensible places? Are the read-outs and settings clear and having that kind of obviousness that good designers build into things.
I think Id go somewhere that specializes in cameras but thats large enough to have attractive discountssomewhere like Jessopsand get them to show you a few in your price range.
At one timeprobably stillthe camera makers used to try to sell on the number of megapixels on the sensor. But thats a bit of a how longs a piece of string thing:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/res-demyst.shtml
People like to fasten on something and preferably something that can be quantified. You get the same thing with computers, so there used to be a fascination with specsspeed of the processor and so on. But if the build quality of PCs from Brand X is useless, and the percentage of units thatre actually dead on arrival is high, it really doesnt matter if its shoddy products have better numbers on paper for processor speed, disk size and so on than someone elses. Apple have turned this on its head by coming out with the iPad which isnt fast (because you cant get a fast processor in there) and hasnt massive storage space (because it doesnt use a traditional spinning hard disktoo delicate for a portable), but which is really well-designed and well-built and easy, self-evident and fun to use through the touch interface. Its not about the specs of the device: its about the experience of using it.
Id not pay too much attention to specs but look for something from the kind of maker that gets cameras in the way that Apple gets computing devices. Is the glasswarethe lensgood? Is the body nice and solid, a comfortable shape to hold with the parts fitting wellgood fit and finish? Are the controls in sensible places? Are the read-outs and settings clear and having that kind of obviousness that good designers build into things.
I think Id go somewhere that specializes in cameras but thats large enough to have attractive discountssomewhere like Jessopsand get them to show you a few in your price range.
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