What kind of camera do you use?
 

I just bought a new digital camera. I was just wondering what camera's you guys use, and how you like them.

I got a SONY CYBER-SHOT. Do any of you guys know anything about that camera?

Anyway I tested it out today, and I am pretty sure I will keep this one. It seems to work well and be clear.

Anyway was just wondering if any of you guys had any advice.

I have a Canon S3 IS

Bought a Kodak Z612 on Dec. 29th. The 12X optical zoom is sweet!

I have a Nikon E4600... just a point n' click but it gets the job done. A little bit of blur but great colours (as seems to be the case with most Nikons)

Canon Powershot A40. It serves me well.

Good choice. I have the Canon S2 IS. It was last years model, but the extra 1 megapixels couldn't justify to me the extra $100-$150.

This camera I got has a 10X zoom. I could have got 12X, but I was being cheap and did not want to spend the extra money. It is 6 mega pixels.

Anyway I hope it does well.

12x, 10x it's all good so long as it's not digital zoom.

I was shooting earlier today. Gotta love the zoom.
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Canon S2 IS

Olympus E500 dSLR.

So whats wrong with digital zoom? My camera zooms without me having to focus it or anything. Or is that normal zoom?

^Digital zoom isn't really zoom per se. It is the same as if you were to take a picture, crop out a portion and then expand that portion to full size. So there is a noticeable drop in quality. If the quality doesn't drop when you zoom it is optical. Most cameras I've used have a seperate setting to turn on digital zoom as well, and it is off by default.

Oh, and I have a Canon 20D.

There is optical zoom and digital zoom, optical zoom uses the optics of the camera just like a 35mm type of camera, digital zoom is pretty much like zooming in on a picture in Photoshop or other similar program. It pixelates images pretty bad when the digital zoom is used over the top of optical zoom. I have turned off the digital zoom in my cameras after using it once, the picture quality degrades rapidly.

I looked for the largest optical zoom that I could find when I bought a new camera this fall to replace a 6 year old 2mp Panasonic that had seen its fair share of abuse. I bought a Panasonic DMC-FZ7K, it is a 6mp camera with a 12x optical zoom and does video clips. I am still learning the idiosyncrasies that all cameras have but like it so far.

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Digital zoom is just stupid and I'm amazed by the amount of people I see who are convinced that it's just as good as optical zoom. Seriously, I'll just Photoshop out a digital zoom later and keep the original with everything around the cropped section.

Digital zoom flat out ruins the rez beyond some 2x and I've made sure to confine my eye to what the natural eye can see.

I've got a Canon Powershot SD600. It seems to have treated me well, and a few of my shots are so vivid and perfect that I fail to see the need to spend the extra green on a better camera.

My old camera is a Canon Power Shot also?

It did do me well. But the last little while it has started to not work well. So thats why I bought a new camera. But my canon did work well.

Anyway I told the guy at the camera store I take mostly city shots, and stuff, and this SONY CYBER SHOT is the one he suggested. I asked him if I should go more expensive, and he basically said the difference between the one I got and the more expensive ones is not that big, unless you are blowing up your pics alot into large large sizes.

So we will see. I hope it works out well. You guys think I made a good choice?

It's pretty difficult to make the wrong choice when going with just a point and shoot camera. They're pretty much all good options.

I got a Sony CS P150 7.2MP

http://www.thinkingms.com/pensieve/c.../sony-p150.jpg

ANd I'm very pleased with it - I prefere a small camera that fits in my pocket...


A few pics of mine...

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I find the digital camera situation to be very frustrating. I grew up using film and really got into it and even started using medium and large format cameras. I have a Plaubel Makina 67 camera which is my favorite. It's a medium format camera and the film is about five times larger than 35mm film so the quality is excellent. I've got a digital Canon PowerShot A95 and it's ok but when you buy a digital camera it's an antique a year or two later because they keep increasing the megapixels and quality. I'm sure this is planned so you'll keep on buying more of them. If you bought a film 35mm camera 30 years ago it would still take high quality photos today and be comparable to any film camera on the market. I know that digitals have some advantages over film, I just don't want to have to buy a new one every two or three years.

^If you bite the bullet and get a decent DSLR then that isn't really the case. The 20D/30D basic model has been around for a while and it's perfectly acceptable. The 1D has been top of the line for quite a while too. Of course the lenses for DSLRs will stay current even if the camera body doesn't.

But yeah, for point and shoot you're right. And the quality of even the best DSLR still doesn't compare to that of medium or large format cameras.