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buying a digital camera soon
gprime:
--- Quote from: Tailgunner on December 27, 2004, 05:15:08 pm ---You'll be quite happy with that Powershot. I've a Powershot A85 I take everywhere, to the point that my Digital Rebel is getting jealous. ;)
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Isn't the rebel a $1000 camera? And you choose the other over that!?
Are you just afraid of damaging it, or does the Powershot outperform it?
Bones:
--- Quote from: Tailgunner on December 27, 2004, 05:15:08 pm ---Newer digitals aren't nearly as power hungry as they used to be. My Kodaks would eat a set of batteries in short order, where my Canons will run out of storage space before you need to worry about the battery.
You'll be quite happy with that Powershot. I've a Powershot A85 I take everywhere, to the point that my Digital Rebel is getting jealous. ;)
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I don't remember the exact model I had the bad experience with although it was a Cannon and had 10 X optical zoom and an image stabilizer. I was one of the newer models I believe. At first I thought I had a dud couple of batteries but when three different brands all yielded the same results, I gave up. Real shame as I couldn
wboy:
I own the Canon PowerShot A75 and am very impressed with the quality, battery life and flash brightness on the camera.
It really does produce beautiful shots. On one set of 2300mAHrechargbles, I can get over 300+ shots..... !!! WOW!
I actually went the A75 over the A85 as a lot of the early reviews showed the A85 and A95 produced purple fringing around objects in photos more than the A75.
And as a 3.2mp can be blown up to A4 no problem, it was more than enough for my needs.
clanggedin:
I picked up the Kodak DX7630. It was the same price as the Sony DSC-W1. It is more user friendly than the W1 for novice photographers like my wife and has low noise in the images it takes. Another plus was that it uses SD cards. They are really cheap and I can stick them in my Pocket PC to view the images. I can't do that with my Sony DSC-F717.
The Canon A500 takes slightly better shots colorwise than the DX7630, but I couldn't find a place locally that had one in stock. I figured I usually run all my images through Photoshop, that colors don't really matter anyway.
I like Sony cams too, but I am trying to stray away from any more proprietary memory formats and just stick with SD and CF.
Tailgunner:
--- Quote from: gprime on December 27, 2004, 05:22:25 pm ---!!
Isn't the rebel a $1000 camera? And you choose the other over that!?
Are you just afraid of damaging it, or does the Powershot outperform it?
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More afraid of it being stolen, the Rebel and it's bag of stuff is worth too much to haul around casually. I picked up the Powershot as a point and shoot camera I could keep handy. Comparing them isn't fair, the Rebel has a 2.3 megapixel advantage, uses 35mm film camera lenses and flash units, and has a level of control you won't find in a point in shoot camera.