graememk
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 09:50 AM |
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digital camera help
i've had a few cheap digital camers but now want to buy a little bit of a better one.
i found with the cheap ones from pressing the button to the photo being taken theres a delay. what is this called and what do i need to look for when
buying
would this be ok for home use
?ARGOOSE
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Just
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 10:09 AM |
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It's shutter lag and can be a real pain. Always found Fuji F and S series to be great value for the quality.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 10:21 AM |
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Hi Graeme,
As a point and shoot I have a FUJI FINEPIX F10.
From "powerup" to "ready" it takes less than 1 second. Pictures are great (it won some award in 2006) at 6.3Mpx with excellent
colour. Size is small and flat with auto lens protect (a small door) Price is quite good now too... was about £250 at the time.
Reviews: HERE
HERE and
HERE
From pressing shutter release to picture taking is less that 0.5 second. Even with my digi-SLR there is a small delay.
Hope it helps... oh, and I'm NOT selling mine either! 
Steve
[Edited on 7-5-07 by Hellfire]
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flak monkey
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 10:26 AM |
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Graeme, bit out of touch with the current range of digi compacts, so can't be much help there.
But one of the best places to buy from is:
http://www.warehouseexpress.com/
Get all of our stuff from there, and have yet to find better prices on most stuff.
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Peteff
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 11:06 AM |
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pressing the button to the photo being taken theres a delay
We have a 3 year old Fuji, 2.3mp but it is fine for any pictures we need. Larger numbers does not make a better camera but the optics and sensors are
critical. For a lot of stuff now your phone camera will take an adequate size picture. Our camera has the delay you mention when used in Auto mode but
switching to Manual gets rid of it.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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stuart_g
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 12:23 PM |
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Just bought a Panasonic DMC-FZ7 in silver last week, well impressed best price from www.ebuyer.com for £150 ish.
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snapper
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 02:33 PM |
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Have a look at Samsung, i saw there range of compacts at Photokina and was impressed, 7 to 10 Mpix some with ultra close up, one with big optical lens
and one that will play MP3 and Mpeg video.
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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Catpuss
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 02:54 PM |
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SWMBO used to get quite a few compacts for testing from work. We cound the Fuji cameras to be consistently grainy, image wise. The older ones were
much better.
Nikkon do decent compacts though with the flash there is a little lag between pressing the button and activity.
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tegwin
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 02:56 PM |
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If you want a camera with 0 delay and infinate adjustment have a look at the canon EOS 400D....
Its a really nice camera and does some funky stuff...like this:
Or, the older brother, the EOS 350D is still a good camera and much cheaper!
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iank
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 03:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Catpuss
SWMBO used to get quite a few compacts for testing from work. We cound the Fuji cameras to be consistently grainy, image wise. The older ones were
much better.
I think fuji use physically small ccd's in the new camera which makes them pretty poor indoors. However they take some great pictures outdoors
with strong sunlight. My ancient Kodak 2.3Mpixel fixed focus takes better pictures indoors.
Next digital will be a low/mid range SLR. Probably a canon.
--
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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t.j.
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 04:35 PM |
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Don't listen, i have the best handy camera 
Buy the canon power shot A 710 IS
7.1 meg pixels
Optical zoom 6x
2 normal AA batteries (rechargable)
SD-card (upgrade to 2 GB is recommended)
Big LCD-screen
incl sound and filming possible
Don't fall for digital zoom, it's crap
If you want more optical zoom the camera will be bigger.
The small camera's don't make nice pictures
grtz and good luck choosing one!
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RichardK
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 04:43 PM |
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Quite simply the Fuji F31
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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Catpuss
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 04:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by iank
Next digital will be a low/mid range SLR. Probably a canon.
I bought SWMBO a Nikkon D40X, from currys it was £540 with 200mm extra lens. Normally retails at around £600 (at the time more 650 to 700). It was
rather confusing why currys were doing it that cheap as they were shifting them off the shelves like mad at that price and the general reviews of the
camera were excellent.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 07:59 PM |
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As well as making sure the camera you get has decent optics you also have to be careful with the claimed sensor resolution (megapixels), some
manufacturers have been known to inflate the numbers by interpolating from a smaller resolution. Even some of the higher end DSLR's can be a bit
misleading with their non-square ccd cells in raw modes.
If i was looking for a camera at the moment i'd be keeping an eye out for something like a secondhand D50/70/100, Nikon have pretty much updated
their entire range in the last few months so there's probably a decent amount of used kit appearing on the market about now.
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Catpuss
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 08:08 PM |
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Yep. Jessops regularly sell on recon D50s e.t.c.
The D40X is supposed to be comparible to the older cameras higher in the range.
The D40 gets good reviews too, which was what SWMBO was originally going to buy until we found the D40X was near the same price.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 08:43 PM |
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Repairers are a good place to pick up used kit. We use Fixation for all of our repairs, they've
usually got a fair amount of stock in
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Catpuss
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| posted on 7/5/07 at 10:43 PM |
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Nice. I'll bookmark them in case our's needs fixing.
The original of my avatar and a whole other set done at the same time were on a Cannon EOS D30. An old beast but really nice image quality. They still
seem to be going for £500+ on fleabay though.
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Marcus
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| posted on 8/5/07 at 12:02 PM |
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I'm with TJ here, Canon A710.
I have the slightly older (only 6MP) A700, it's a cracking piece of kit
Marcus
Because kits are for girls!!
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