Reccomend Me A Digital Camera South Australia

[kralster]

Hi everyone,

I've been just looking onilne and am going to go to some stores tomorrow.

And I want to buy myself a digital camera. All i want is a point and shoot one. Nothing fancy like SLR with big lense that sticks out. In fact i'd only want a small one that can fit in my pocket. Something that can be used during a night out on the town. Or taking pics at the motogp next month. Or even just happy snaps with friends and loved ones.

I love the look of the sony T series. http://www.sony.com.au/dis/catalog/product...ategoryId=22119 And it's size and features are what i'm looking for.

Anyone have experiance with these camera? What camera do you have? do you like it?

Would love to hear some respsonses.

[cruzin33]

Iv got a Olympus C-760 Ultra Zoom with 30x optical and digital zoom 3.2 megapixel cost me around 450bucks from Radal Rentals with a load of features but only use a few with my skill lol but even so it works a treat with good clear zoom.

[Nightcrawler]

I have always used and loved Sony cameras Karl.

The one big thing I always look for is for them to have InfoLithium batteries as opposed to AAs - so I can plug the charging cable straight into the camera without stuffing around with external AA battery chargers. Also, I shy away a bit from the ultra-tiny cameras (like the T Series) since 1. They tend to be fragile if dropped/banged about, and 2. They are easier to lose as they are so thin and tiny.

The T series are sexy-as, but I think you are on the right track with the S Series link you have given.

[Hotwire]

Check out www.dpreview.com or www.photoreview.com.au

They are both great for camera tests.

[Howie]

I have always used and loved Sony cameras Karl.

Same deal here... just picked up a DSC-H9, awesome zoom on the camera, great pro-sumer camera to compliment the sony alpha slr i'm about to get.

Here's some pics from the H9

Glenelg

Majesty's Theatre (bit of pp on this one)

Mate's Wedding

Mate's Bike

My Ride

My Ride

My wife has a canon ixus which is alot more compact than my camera, takes relatively clear bright photos.. although anything at that size you don't get good depth of field or many features that make the larger cameras so much more attractive. My brother has a Sony P200 which is pretty good also, very responsive from start to shoot, also a tiny little thing.

Edited September 14, 2007 by Howie

[Richo]

Iv got a Olympus C-760 Ultra Zoom with 30x optical and digital zoom 3.2 megapixel cost me around 450bucks from Radal Rentals with a load of features but only use a few with my skill lol but even so it works a treat with good clear zoom.

Highly doubt theres a digi camera out there with 30X optical zoom more like 10x optical X whatever useless digital zoom.

Edited September 14, 2007 by Richo

[cruzin33]

Ya sorry its 10x optical and 20x digital zoom

[pixel8r]

Just to throw in another option - check out the Ricoh R6. For the money, its excellent value, but its more for people like yourself that really want something that can easily fit in your pocket.

Its 7.2MP, with 7.1x optical zoom

- 640x480 video @30fps

- almost no shutter lag (AF is fairly quick, especially outdoors)

- it has anti-shake

- uses SD cards

- takes about 300-400 photos on a single charge

- custom battery (charger included).

- its lens is wide angle, so ranges from 28mm - 200mm (35mm equiv).

and the best bit is it measures only 10cm long, by 2.2cm deep, by 5cm high - so yes it will fit in your pocket easily.

shot-to-shot times are about 1s or .5s in burst mode.

Its not jam packed with features but does have all the usual stuff and some extra features you'll find useful - such as face detection, all the usual scene modes etc.

prices are around $500 i think - well I paid something like $540 with a 1GB card from camerahouse.

I believe the ricohs have a sony CCD sensor but I cant confirm this for the latest model.

Ricoh does exhibit a bit of "noise" or "graininess" in photos but if you look closely its mostly luminance noise (different variations of the same colour) and not digital noise (red, blue and green dots). Many reviewers still dont understand the difference and criticize the R6 for noise when its just luminance noise which simply gives greater detail. How many things in life are flat colours? Even your seemingly smooth desk will have a certain texture to it - a lot of modern cameras use so much noise reduction that what you get from the camera is only a semi-realistic image with everything slightly blurred and smoothed over to make a "nicer" image. This is fine for most people but ricoh opts to give you more detail and a more true-to-life picture (as do a few other brands, like panasonic for example). Have a look at any photo with grass in it from major camera manufacturers. It'll look very airbrushed, particularly in distant areas. I personally prefer more detail than a surreal picture that is more pleasing to look at. I can edit the photos on my PC afterwards if I want to brighten the colours and smooth everything, giving me the best of both worlds. If you prefer nicer looking photos to realistic looking photos however, then a ricoh is probably not for you - and vice versa. You can get the same effect using photo editing tools on a computer, but many people dont want to bother with this and dont care for how true-to-life their photos look

Sony's are good cameras also. I'm not a big fan of canon point-and-shoot cameras as I feel they do too much noise reduction and give you plastic looking photos but the photos do look good so its your call

[Maxx]

I have P9, T1, V1, F717

yeah.. all Sony...

I am selling the V1 for a Ricoh GX100

PM me if u are interest

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=99018

[HOSTILE]

I have had a sony dscp8 and currently a nikon D50 slr, but I sell sony and panasonic cameras at my work.

[Race__24]

I've got one of those Olympic tough cameras.

Shock and waterproof to an extent, takes good photos, lots of shooting modes, compact, unlimited video length(as long as you xd card is big), over 120 shots per charge with flash

[kalel]

first start by nailing down your budget= camera+memory card (~2 GB) + spare battery. then you try and get those items and stay in your budget.

here are a couple I would recommend at different price ends.

http://www.canon.com.au/products/visual/ca...italixus75.aspx

http://www.canon.com.au/products/visual/ca...owershotG9.aspx prob ~$800

As for depth of field, well what howie says is not 100% correct. Many point and click cameras will, to maintain a fast shutter speed and prevent blurry photos in many lighting conditions, set the aperture (f number) to as wide as possible (f=2.8 for example) to allow as much light onto the sensor and give a faster shutter speed. The consequence of this is that you loose the depth of field. You can over ride this if you have a manual mode in your camera where you can tell it what aperture stop you want (say f=8) which will result in a slower shutter speed. This can be compensated for by setting a high ISO and or using a flash.

So to cut a long story short, work out your rough budget, then find a camera and accesories that will fit inside that budget and give you the most options for your camera.

Just remember Megapixels is not everything! a good lens will out do any number of Megapixels with in reason.

Canon make their own lenses and are really good.

Panasonic use the Leica DC-Vario lens which are also good

Sony use the Carl-Zeiss (but you pay for it cos it's Sony and is not necessarily as good as the others)

Hope this helps. If you have any further queries PM me. I do work as a photographer so I have a bit of an idea about these things. It's always good to ask people in the know, that's the only way you learn about things!

[Cubes]

Teds Camera's has a photo album with photo's taken pretty much identically from all their different camera's. Inside shoots, portraits & macro.

From the photo's the Canon's by far have best white balance, exposure and saturation.

Which isn't surprising as canons make awesome DSLR's so they have the technology down pat.

The olympus's aren't far behind but tend to look a little too bright.

Kodak simply nasty as. Sony; from memory wasn't bad but the saturation was a little out.

Head down and check out their photo album, the sales staff (the one that I got at Marion) knew his stuff. More mp isn't always better.

They also offer a 30day return and swap for another camera if your not happy with how the camera works. i.e poor not up to scratch inside shots etc..

[Madaz]

well i have a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 AWESOME camera very much so

i will post up a couple of shots from the weekend

this first one was of a young lad in my daughters soccer team (one for Pauly hes a little Rinaldo)

Orriginal 3328x1872 2.93 MB camera set to auto sports shot

Orriginal 3328x1872 2.99 MB camera set to auto sports shot

here is one of R32 i spotted in the city

3072x2304 1.52 MB no settings applied 0 zoom

3072x2303 1.31 MB 10x optical zoom

3072x2304 1.26 MB 15x combined zoom

Both the R32 and the young soccer Goalie were about 50+ meters away

all in all its a great camera not 100% sure how well it would fit in a shirt pocket but is ok in jeans pocket

ALL pictures are clickable for full sized image with no compression

Edited September 16, 2007 by Madaz

[Madaz]

I have had a sony dscp8 and currently a nikon D50 slr, but I sell sony and panasonic cameras at my work.

where do you work and whats you opinions of the Lumix range of camera or does it depend on which model Lumix camera you get