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buying a digital camera soon
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 07, 2005, 02:55:17 pm ---hey i ordered the canon A85, didnt get it yet. But they had to call me to confirm my shipping address, and when i was talkin to the guy he was trying to sell me <auto-censored>, i kept sayin no no, but he asked me if i got a card and i said i ordered one already from somewhere else ( i got the sandisk ultra you linked me to), and he was spewing some crap about how they suck and will have a 7 second lag time cause 1. its not a "high speed" card, and 2. a 512MB is too big for a point and click camera. how the hell can something be too big? unless these flash cards work nothing like normal harddrives or memory that i learned about in computer class i dont see how size will affect speed at all. is this guy just trying to sell me crap i dont need or what?
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He's just trying to sell you crap... and he's not doing a very good job either.
Sephroth57:
yeah thats what i figured, and i just checked the sandisk card i bought , it lists "High Speed Transfer" as one of its features... so yeah. what a dumbass
JoyMonkey:
I'd hate to start another thread on "what digital camera should I buy" (I think there's been about 5 in the last few months), so i'm going to hijack this one.
It's time for me to upgrade my camera. Digital cameras seem to change so often, it's difficult to know which to buy when. I'm upgrading from a Minolta Dimage S414, so I'd like the new one to also use Compact Flash cards, be much smaller and have good battery life (using AAs if possible)
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I'm thinking the Canon PowerShot S500 is what I should buy, the A95 would be perfect if it wasn't so big.
What do you reckon?
JoyMonkeys camera comparison sheet:
http://www.joymonkey.com/cameras.pdf
DrewKaree:
Olympus C-8080
JoyMonkey:
The C-8080 is too big, too expensive and doesn't take my media (I want a CF camera). I should have said that I'm staying around the $300 mark. That PDF I made shows the cameras I'm thinking about and compares sizes and features.
Has anyone got a Canon S500 that they'd recommend? I found it for $270 new shipped here. The only thing I'm not sure about is its battery life.