Help me find a good Digital Camera

[zackatack]

hey guys I am looking for a good point and shoot digital camera, 4 or 5 megapixils. Looking at the cannon PowerShot S400 and the Olympus C-50 zoom or Olympus Digital Stylus 400. Any help guys? I have also been looking at the following site which has been somewhat heplful. dpreview.com

 

Please help

[Karl-G]

The Canon is excellent, small, easy, flexible, gives superb results, and downloads easily. I have used it and like it.

[Guest Merlin]

I have owned both Olympus and Canon. I believe that Canon has the best metering system and will in most circumstances take the best photos.

[+ Lucky]

Hoover, is this question being presented in the correct forum? So far, the discussion of digital camera has not focused on the attributes of escorts.

[Guest mondo]

Lucky who is Hoover? No Hoover here.

[HooBoy]

http://reviews.cnet.com/4521-6530_7-5021301-7.html

[+ Lucky]

RE: Hoover vacuum cleaners make cameras?

 

Hoover is hoover42, one of my favorite posters. We had a friendly exchange recently about what forum was appropriate, so I was curious what he thought about this thread being in the deli. (Of course, it no longer is!)

[fedssocr1]

I have a Nikon Coolpix 4300 which gives nice results. Has lots of built in scene modes for different lighting conditions, and if you are ambitious you can manually set most of the settings via its many menus. It's finally coming down in price a bit to the $400 level. It is a bit bulky though compared to much of the competition. There are some truly tiny cameras out there these days if you want one to just stick in your packet and go.

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Smark Disk Universal Readers

 

Since I am now using several computes and I often take photographs for others, I have purchased a very inexpensive peripheral called the Smark Disk Universal Reader (which makes direct connections from the media to the computer and is very versatile).

 

So I would consider a camera that you like and concern yourself less with how easy it is to download material from the camera to any computer.

 

I would look at ease of use, handling, comfort as well as HOW you would use the camera and, more importantly how you MIGHT use it in the future. I know I use mine in far more different fashions now than when I first obtained it.

[Guest n6sorrel]

Both you Olympus and Cannon choices are 3x optical zooms. They are nice small cameras. I'd suggest you go to a store with good stocks and compare say, the C50 zoom with the C750 or 740 10X zoom.

 

I traveled with a friend this summer. He had a 3x zoom, my C750 an 8x.

Close in, both cameras produced identical shots. For midrange and distance shots, the larger zoom captured significantly better images.

 

The trade off is a larger camera and the question returns to how will you use the camera and what you want it to do. If it is portraits, close up and snapshot formats the smaller zoom is fine. If you see a handsome man at a cafe table on the other side of the piazza, the bigger zoom allows you to take a shot that appears as if you had walked over within 10 feet of his table.

[+ Hoover42]

>Hoover, is this question being presented in the correct

>forum? So far, the discussion of digital camera has not

>focused on the attributes of escorts.

 

You're right, Lucky! I'm so happy the moderators spotted it before I did; I would hate to get a reputation as a troublemaker.

 

Hmmm, wait a minute...you're not still mad at me about trying to get the smoking topic moved, are you?

 

...Hoover

[+ Lucky]

RE: Help me find a good Digital Camaro

 

I never was mad!!! I thought we had a nice exchange over that. So you can see that I am not smoking over it! :) :)

[digicamman]

>Both you Olympus and Cannon choices are 3x optical zooms.

>They are nice small cameras. I'd suggest you go to a store

>with good stocks and compare say, the C50 zoom with the C750

>or 740 10X zoom.

>

>I traveled with a friend this summer. He had a 3x zoom, my

>C750 an 8x.

 

Since we are talking about something I finally know about, let me warn you about Zooms. The only useful zoom on a digital camera is the OPTICAL ZOOM size, usually anywhere from 2x to 6x. I believe, but am only guessing that the 8x and the 10x referred to here is DIGITAL zoom, which for the most part is useless, for anything but the very smallest enlargments.

 

BUT be sure you are talking OPTICAL ZOOM. The DIGITAL ZOOM, usually your higher values, is NOT obtained through any optical prowess of the camera lens, but rather from merely enlarging the image, as the name implies, DIGITALLY. You can do this yourself simply by clicking the + button or "enlarge" tab on your digital software--especially in the smaller MP (megapixel) cameras, the detail is quickly lost and the image pixelates.

 

You didn't indicate a price range, but all digital cameras can be "point and shoots" -- even the big pro models that have 11-14 MP and have interchangable lenes, have an auto-program you can select making them "point and shoot."

 

In the under $500 category, I'd get the largest OPTICAL ZOOM you can find, forgetting about the useless digital zoom claims. From an image quality standpoint, in the under 5 MP cameras, any of the optics will produce just as good of image as the next, but other features and ease of operation and OPTICAL ZOOM are more important.

 

the consistently best price is usually had at B&H photo & video in NYC--they're on the net.

[Kando]

I've been using digital cameras for 3 years now. My current one, the Canon Powershot S400, is by far the best. It may be small but it takes superb photos. Highly recommended.

[Guest Kenny021]

Very recently bought the Canon Power Shot G3 (after reading all the wonderful reviews about it). I am very pleased with it. It is a 4 Megapixel camera with loads of features.

[Guest n6sorrel]

The Olympus C-700 series are Optical Zooms. I mistyped earlier, mine is a 720 with an 8X optical. This seems to have been replaced with the 740 and 750 which have 10X optical.

 

The 750 is 5 mp and 600.00 on the Olympus website, the 740 3.2 mp and 450.00. I think the difference in mega pixels is much less important than optical zoom. Unless you are going to print the images in poster size, the 3.2 will render computer displayed image and prints up to 8 X 10 that are indistinguishable from the 5.0.

[Will]

The best camera I have ever owned, bar none, is my new Sony DSC-F717, with a Zeiss zoom lens. It was recommended by a photographer, and all my super-digital friends clamor to borrow it. If I remember correctly, it cost about $700.

[HooBoy]

I'm with fedssocr1.

 

I love my Nikon CoolPix, but it is a little large.:+

 

http://www.male4malescorts.com/images/nikon.jpg

[zackatack]

Thanks for all the input guys, its been great and I am sorry I posted this question in the wrong room, but once again thanks for the help and any more info would be great