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buying a digital camera soon
Witchboard:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 11, 2005, 05:41:30 pm ---Steve's Digicams gave it a very good review and it's only $276 shipped from Butterfly Photo, but it's as big as what we've got right now, heavy on batteries and uses XD media as you said.
To a lot of people this is trivial stuff, but I guess I'm being picky.
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I have an E-550 and LOVE it. I bought mine from Butterfly Photo. They are really good with customer service. I got a call after the day I ordered and I expected it to be the typical, "I'm sorry, this is out of stock." call, but he was actually calling just to make sure there wasn't anything else I needed. I'm very pleased with them.
As for the batteries, I'm not sure how long other camera's last, but playing with mine for the first week and the batteries lasted several days of me fiddling. Maybe I'm just not hard core enough. I bought a 4 pack of batteries at Wal-Mart for less than $10 and use the charger that came with the camera. I just swap them out when need be.
I agree the included xD card is kinda funny. 16MB which is good for 1 RAW photo (the main reason why I bought this camera). I bought a 512MB xD for less than $60 at NewEgg. It allows me to take over 300 images at 6MP or over 30 RAW images. Plus, I can record almost 10 minutes of video with sound on it.
I'm looking at getting the telephoto and wideangle lenses for it as well.
Bones:
Just brought a Cannon IXUS500 today.
So far crappy results but I really dunno how to use it yet. Been doing SLR photography as a hobby for years but this is very different....