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buying a digital camera soon
DrewKaree:
My bad....for some reason, that PDF took almost five minutes to load!!
I took the "so I'd like the new one to also use Compact Flash cards" to mean if you found one you really liked, that wouldn't be the killer of the deal.
Are you using rechargeable AA's as well, and that's why you'd like to keep using an AA powered camera?
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 07, 2005, 03:30:27 pm ---
Are you using rechargeable AA's as well, and that's why you'd like to keep using an AA powered camera?
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Yes, I've got a lot of hi capacity NiMH AA's. So a AA camera would be nice, but not essential. I really don't want to have to buy all new memory cards though.
xar256:
For those of you with the Canon cameras...How are they for low light shots? I've been looking at the Kodak CX7530 because it seems to do real nice under low light...But seeing as some people here are moving away from the Kodaks in favor of the Canons...I thought I'd ask
Xar256 ;D
GGKoul:
I have a Canon G2 and it takes ok night shots..
DrewKaree:
Dunno if you made your choice yet, but I went with my brother-in-law to check out a few, since he was looking to buy. We have a relative who works in one of those "we cater to the photog nuts here" places - buy your fixer/filters/paper/whatever-you-can-imagine stuff, and we got to see some demonstration pictures of the cameras they sold. They didn't deal in Canon's, but they had Olympus', Nikons, Fuji's, for digital...a couple of other brands, but those were their major offerings. (Saw me a SWEET Leica, but that's a different story!)
The really nice high-end Nikons produced pictures that were a little better than the camera he ended up buying - Fuji E-550. The differences of holding the same picture made by three different cameras REALLY demonstrates how nice this camera is.
After he bought it, I'm impressed enough that I may just sell my Sony and pick one of these up. I dunno about price point you can find it for, but here's some stats I can remember.
$320
6 Mp
AA Batteries (two included as well as a charger)
USB Cable
Super CCD
(this sounds like your deal breaker) XD flash cards (although a 256 was only $50)
Just flat out beautiful pictures in many different settings. His cousin was the one taking the pictures, and he gave us all kinds of info on what he used to get the images like that (and the settings, as equal as possible)