Digital Camera Advice

[SeaSalt]

I accidently drove off with my 5 year old faithful sony dsc-p1 on top of my roof... it resulted in RIP...

Anyone have suggestion on a digital camera or a place to buy it?

I've narrowed my choices to Canon S1 or Canon SD300. Any other choices I should consider?

[RuddeDogg]

I have the kodak easy sahre system. Great for the price.

[Sendah]

...is a gem. That flip screen'll work wonders. Has most of the bells and whistles of the typical cameras and grerat quality shots. Just a little heavy...

[mdram]

ive got a kodak 7590
10x optical zoom, 5.1mp

couldnt ask for much more

[Blloyd]

My better half got a Kodak Easy Share 10X optical 6.1 from some off site on Ebay (remanufactured camera) for $250 - works like a charm. If interested in exactly which retailer she got it from send me a pm and I'll find out.

[johnnyleo11]

It really depends on what you want to do w/ your camera. I just sold my DSC-P7 two months ago to cdog. Sold it to him for $100. I now have a DSC-L1. I like it because it's smaller than my cell phone and I use it just for point and shoot photography. Upstart time from when I press the power button to when it's ready to take a picture is less than a second. This is a huge difference from the P7 when it took about 2.5 seconds. I'm familiar with Sony's menu layout and fel that they put out a good product. After looking at SonyStyle.com, it looks like they have already released another line of cameras.

[Otter]

C-Net.

Here's the camera section (http://reviews.cnet.com/Digital_cameras/2001-6501_7-0.html?tag=dir). You can filter the reviews by price, megapix, manufacturer, anything. CNet is great.

[Pond Fisher]

Don't go with a Kodak or a Canon Go with a Nikon for a couple more bucks the prints are better and your not stuck with their special cards and batteries.

Chris

[Fish Hunter]

hmmmm, long subject with many answers. As a professional, I now use Cannon gear for my portrait work and commerical work.

Point and shoot digitals, all of them, leave something to be desired. My major complaint with them is trying to use one on the beach at nite. # 1 You cannot see thru the dang things
#2 The flash is pitifully inadequate in most cases.

Find an older Nikon D100, Fuji S1, Cannon D30 for around $ 500 with a small zoom lense, add a flash and you have something to work with. Even a full Canon Rebel system is around $ 700 these days and you have something nice.

Just like fishing tackle. You would not use fresh water bass tackle for a heaver setup. Sometimes we tend to ask too much from too little.

But, any of the new point and shoots with at least 3 meg files will give you a image that you can carry to 5x7 size print with very little manipulation.

Me, I went back to a waterproof Fuji 35mm film point and shoot for the beach and then just have a hi res disk made at the lab for posting and such. :eek:

[catman]

hmmmm, long subject .............
Me, I went back to a waterproof Fuji 35mm film point and shoot for the beach and then just have a hi res disk made at the lab for posting and such. :eek:

What kind of enlargement quality do you get with a hi res disk? Can I go 8 x 10? Thanks for the info.

[johnnyleo11]

I don't trust the picture CD's you get from the development shops. If you have your own scanner, scan the photos yourself and you'll be mroe pleased with the quality. You can also control the degree of sharpness you want when you scan the photo. If you have a scanner that can scan negatives, it's even better. With film, there won't ever be any pixelation when you try to blow it up.

3 Megapixel (2048x1536 pixels) will have enough information in it as to not notice the pixels when printed on paper 8x10.

[TreednNC]

I have two, A Cannon Powershot A70 and Minolta Dimage Z3....love both, would reccomend a Cannon for around the house, indoors, upclose stuff...great camera and quality, check into the newer upgrade models....The Dimage has GREAT optical zoom for outside shots. Just learning more about it as I play with it....

I saw where the Kodak Easy shares were mentioned..deffinately a good price...however I have had experience with several models, I cant remember the #'s...Mostly use the Easy shares at work, and the macro (upclose) setting arent worth $0.02 nor do they deal well with ANY shaking during the photo. Easy to use if youre ROCK STEADY though.

If you would like to see any shots from a Cannon I can email you various kinds of photos from it. Havent had the Dimage but a few days. Sister has the Z5 and takes absolutely GREAT pics with it....Has a built in anti shake feature that is great.

[Fish Hunter]

To go to a 8x10 print you should be working with approximately a 12 meg file after cropping and interpolation.

An example is a 16x20 file I just finished for a high school senior is 227 meg.

A lot will be determined by the amount of information on the file. Close up vs lots of space, will automatically give you a larger file size.

Now, I am not talking about the Wally World, Eckerds disk, but a good lab for semi pro or pro work..

Yep, i've got the high dollar flat bed 16bit scanner, but on stuff, that I am just posting to the web, its easier and cheaper for me to use a ready made disk.

[MaverickFWA]

I bought an Olympus last year and can't fault it , C750 with 10x optical zoom, XD picture cards are soooo goood to use .

I use the hi capacity rechargable batteries as all digi camera's chew thru the power.

CHEERS ,