i am digital camera shopping now! wheee!
so far the Fuji Finepix 3800 seems to be a winner. It is retailing for $699.
Does anyone have anything that I should be looking out for?
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i am digital camera shopping now! wheee!
so far the Fuji Finepix 3800 seems to be a winner. It is retailing for $699.
Does anyone have anything that I should be looking out for?
canon powershot g2 or g3 would be my choice.
Although the G3 does produce very fine pictures, I find it too feature laden and bulky. You end up paying for a lot of features that most people would never use.
One thing to keep in mind is unless you plan on printing out a lot of photos, anything over 2.5 or 3 megapixels is a waste because it will be larger than the screen.
I have a Nikon Coolpix and quite like it. It is small, has 3 megapixels and can be found for about $500 – $600 on eBay new.
as you know, i’m a canon kid, always been happy. one thing about higher resolutions is that you can always use less res than ya got, but never more. and you may only rarely want that quality, but the thing is, you don’t know when you’d need it until one day you take a totally stellar picture that looks amazing on the screen, but the resolution is not enough for printing, to sell, to enter in a contest, or to have appear in a magazine.
my suggestion is to buy the highest resolution you can afford. and as far as those other features, you may well fall in love with photography after using the cam a while, and suddenly, they’re very nice to have.
one more note about resolution, even aside from printing, it may be larger than your screen, but as soon as you start cropping, them extra pixels is important.
thanks for the pointers jeremy, julie and jim! (ooo, 3 j’s!)
I will check the g2 and g3 out.
fred at http://www.fredshead.org uses a g1 powershot and the photos are *fabulous*. trish and cory at http://www.spiritofplace.com use a g2 and their pics are great as well (they also highly recommend the g2). the g3 just came out, so it’s probably pretty expensive still, but i’m not sure.
check out the canon s40, jill just took that to Asia travelling and it is taking really nice crisp pictures. It is a 4 megapixel compact camera with all of the features of the g2 (except ability for extra lenses and fold out lcd<— really cool though). It is a great camera and has many settings to make sure that you get a great shot. I used to own an canon s100, it took 4000 shots before it died in a waterfall but canon cameras take a serious beating…I would say that, like a computer you buy whatever you can afford that has the best features that you need, i would not by anything less then 3 megapixel unless you want to just post online.