Gonna finally break down and get a digital cam
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FujiFilm, I love mine and the price was reasonable. Consider what you want to spend, and check out new Consumer Reports, they led me to the Fuji.
What kind of capabilities do you want. Long zoom, portability, what?
Do you want the small compacts, a big prosumer, or something in the middel?
Do you want the small compacts, a big prosumer, or something in the middel?
Canon SD500 is a darn nice cam... I had a Fuji S7000 and would recommend that as well. It can be really basic or go full manual if you want. Should be under $500 too. Go with Canon though! Maybe the S2IS or something.
I'm thinking of getting the SD500 as well, but for under $500, you might as well get the SD550, which has a larger LCD.
Originally posted by: Fiat1
Canon SD500 compact and great pictures you can take it everywhere.
I'd second that..
I have an SD110, and before that an S110, and I love them both. A camera is of no use if it's too big and bulky to carry around with you all the time. And, the SD500 takes absolutely beautiful pictures. I also think, with the proper fast SD card, you can take continuous video at 640*480 with the SD500.
Sure, you could buy one of the amazing 'pseudo-professional' cameras - but then you wouldn't have it in your pocket when you really want it.
Mostly going to be for my wife. Just need something that takes good pics that she can print 5x7 or 8x10's of and is easy to use.
Okay, so the SD550 hardly breaks new ground, and - coming only six or seven months after the SD500 it replaces - I'd have been surprised if it was. In most respects this is good news; the SD500 was a little gem of a camera (and the best IXUS / ELPH yet), and the SD550 is just that little bit better. Image quality is excellent (for a camera in this class), it's fast, responsive and reliable, and it is one of the few cameras on the market today that has a true 'luxury' feel to it, such is the quality of its build and materials.
Of course it's not all good news - there are still a few image quality issues that pixel peepers will baulk at; the slight corner softness, the purple fringing and the slightly muddy low contrast detail, but the smooth, clean, bright and punchy images will delight the typical user more interested in printing their pictures than zooming into them on-screen and looking for problems. I was disappointed with the new 2.5-inch screen, which has a woefully low resolution (though it's still nice to use for those of us who like to hold the camera at arm's length), and the battery life (when using the screen) could still be better, but overall this is a camera it's hard not to like, and a camera that encourages you to take it everywhere and actually use the thing.
All-in-all, then, the SD550 is everything the SD500 was - and a little more. Maybe not enough for a Highly Recommended (it's still pretty costly and the lack of any real control is unusual at this level), but certainly enough to put near the top of the list for anyone looking for a luxury point-and-shooter.
Of course it's not all good news - there are still a few image quality issues that pixel peepers will baulk at; the slight corner softness, the purple fringing and the slightly muddy low contrast detail, but the smooth, clean, bright and punchy images will delight the typical user more interested in printing their pictures than zooming into them on-screen and looking for problems. I was disappointed with the new 2.5-inch screen, which has a woefully low resolution (though it's still nice to use for those of us who like to hold the camera at arm's length), and the battery life (when using the screen) could still be better, but overall this is a camera it's hard not to like, and a camera that encourages you to take it everywhere and actually use the thing.
All-in-all, then, the SD550 is everything the SD500 was - and a little more. Maybe not enough for a Highly Recommended (it's still pretty costly and the lack of any real control is unusual at this level), but certainly enough to put near the top of the list for anyone looking for a luxury point-and-shooter.
Depends what you're looking for I suppose.
I had an old Canon A70 which had been a good camera, but it was more than a little flaky. Plus, despite it's portability, there were times when having only a 3X zoom was really frustrating. We finally decided to step up to a superzoom.
I narrowed it down to the Canon S2IS and Sony DSC-H1. The Panasonic DMC-FZ5 was nice too, but now that we have a baby we starting to want to use the movie mode a lot more than we did previously and the Panasonic's was weak in that regard. I ended up opting for the Canon (mostly because of my wife already being familiar with the Canon menu system) but I think we would've been perfectly happy with the Sony too.
I had an old Canon A70 which had been a good camera, but it was more than a little flaky. Plus, despite it's portability, there were times when having only a 3X zoom was really frustrating. We finally decided to step up to a superzoom.
I narrowed it down to the Canon S2IS and Sony DSC-H1. The Panasonic DMC-FZ5 was nice too, but now that we have a baby we starting to want to use the movie mode a lot more than we did previously and the Panasonic's was weak in that regard. I ended up opting for the Canon (mostly because of my wife already being familiar with the Canon menu system) but I think we would've been perfectly happy with the Sony too.
if you want 12x optical zoom, a high quality lens (leica), image stabilization in the most compact size available for that zoom then a panasonic fz4 or fz5 is the way to go.
Yeah the size (and weight due to the proprietary battery) on the Panasonic superzooms was really impressive.
Can't go wrong with Canon, but a Rebel is for someone who wants to get more into the photography and spend time with it. So no to those.
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