[OT] Digi Cams

[Jodo]

I need to know what digital cameras you all recommend. I'm going to be spending about £150 on it and don't want to buy one only to be told it's a piece of shit that was mistakenly released by Panasonic or something. :p
I don't care about plugging it directly into a printer or any other useless idea, I just wanna take good photo's and films.
Thanks in advance.

[jini]

a bit more up from 150quid, try the http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Leica/leica_clux1.asp
Compact, but still with a very good, exceptional wide lens @ 28mm. This helps a lot. Its also branded under Panasonic with the model http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfx01.asp.
They are the same cameras, but Leica, well, you get Leica's Legacy and a special leather case which is not available with panasonic (the case comes at a price) Very good, and also featured with a mechanical stabilizer, which helps cameras of that size.
Generally avoid marketing BIG pixel numbers, they produce a lot of noise or those other ultracompacts. And read peoples reviews.

Incidentally Panasonic is paired with Leica's knowledge, so you get very god practical optics

[Mr Kot]

Mine (http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_Camera/PowerShot/PowerShot_A700/index.asp?ComponentID=344371&SourcePageID=384853#1)

It's teh sex :)

Comes out with some nice movies too. Really stunning quality (at the highest resolution and FPS setting) but buy a capacious SD card tho. I have 1GB and i filled it to the last byte on my recent trip across the pond.

Cost me £200 back in August.


/edit: This thread (http://forum.neocron.com/showthread.php?t=135296) contained some useful advice too.

[jini]

not bad, even though I tried hard to find its specs. I wish camera manufacturers had left aside big zoom lenses, and instead giving us practical wide and bright ones (25-28mm & something like 1.8-2.0 aperture) instead they fill us with megapixels and 6-10x zooms, that create meganoise :p

edit: here is another one i found out: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Leica/leica_dlux3.asp or Panasonic: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmclx2.asp latest creation, compact size, and a first: true 16:9 ccd, also full manual control (very cool) and RAW capability (this is more for professionals, as it bypasses limited compression of camera's cpu, leaving powerfull editing programs to do the job like Apple's Aperture, or Adobe's photoshop) still it uses the same nice wide field of view lens @ 28mm (equivalent to 35mm old film cameras). Also new it seems to have an orientation sensor built in (they already have image stabilization using solid gyros) which helps by eliminating the need to goto menus and reorient the photo. Also very nice the 16:9 lcd ... nice camera... Only disadvantage the 10mb of CCD :( EDIT2: no, they had to go 10mb coz of the real 16:9 size of the ccd sensor, therefore its not truly 10mega pixel, not in the sence of the old sensors anyway... If I bought a small compact for fun I woulda bought this one (Leica of course :))

[Pantho]

Maybe you can search for a Spambot.... one of there threads in Beginners Topics


Lets see,

i now we had Handbags, Jewelry, Clothing, .. PSP, im SURE we had a Digicam one

[Jodo]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Anyone else?