Looking for a Good affordable Dig Camera

garod82

garod82

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Ok not just for taking reef pictures but hey sometimes it helps alot when you have a good camera for taking pics of corals for sale etc. Anyway I also need it for my business since I have an online store. Any suggestions?
 
i dont know how affordable you are talking about? i saw this nikon for like 150? it was very nice, can run on 2 x AA bateries? with any lowr end camera, slow to capture (digital delay, hahaha) anyhow, it was simple, nice and good price.... i will look for the model again, but it was a great price. gave one to my dad a while back and was easy for him to loose on trips with out getting too mad. but it still took some nice pics...

i personally own the canon 10d... it has dropped alot in cost even though i bought it when it first came out. but with the newer digital slr cameras, you can change the lens to suite your needs. closeups or telephoto. i think you can get a simple digital slr for about 350 and up? i really love my canon 10d...
 
yea, i like the simple canon ones! i know the sd line has been very popular with the people i know. so small and square! it fits everywhere! hahahha... can't go wrong with one of those...

do you have spare memory cards? may be that will help you choose a camera since you dont' want to buy extra? try looking at it from that angle...
 
Re: memory cards. Almost all point-and-shoots take secure digital (SD, aka MMC) except Sony, which take Sony Memory Stick.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11231878#post11231878 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by babyjess210
This one is sweet for the price

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11217614&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC
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i second this camera... canon cameras are easy to use and take great pictures for the price that you pay. if you do buy this camera, don't buy a memory card until you check "fry's" electronics.... they seem to have 1g cards for about $10 and 2g for $20 or so all the time.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11241914#post11241914 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by photobret
Hands Down Fuji Finepix f31 or f30 if you can find one. I am a professional Photog and have had double page spreads published from this little beast. Pretty inexpensive, MACRO is great, 6mp more than enough, great colour. Awesome camera. Check it out http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fuji_finepixf31fd.asp

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PhotoB
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photobret, did you take any macro shots of corals with this camera? Thanks.
 
One thing to consider [which we found out] is a characteristic of 'point and shoots' called 'shutter lag.' This is the delay between your pushing the button and when the camera actually takes the picture. With the Minolta, there's enough time for the fish to swim to the other end of the tank, have a cigarette, and swim halfway back, so they're not in your frame---when the shutter actually clicks. The fastest camera re shutter lag is the Casio---but it lacks sharpness of focus and takes fuzzy pix. So you have a fuzzy stop-action water drop.
The ones that have both clarity of focus AND low shutter lag are, I think, the Canon Rebel and the Fujifilm cameras. Google 'shutter lag' and wade through it. There is some info out there.
 
Circuit City has Canon SD1000s on sale for $149 on their website. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Cano...74590/catOid/-16941/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do That is the lowest price I have found anywhere for that camera. I bought one for my wife a couple days ago at $177 and thought I was getting a great deal(which IMHO I was). You can pay online at Circuit City and pick up at a local location that has it in stock. That Costco link is an alright deal deal. Basically a slightly larger (and I mean slightly) body than the 1000, and a bigger LCD. Personally, I'd take the money you'd save by getting the SD1000, go on Ebay and buy a couple extra 1000mAh NB-4L batteries, and go to buy dot com and get a couple 1g cards for $10 each. In case you're wondering why I say 1G over 2G. It's strictly for data protection. If you have 2G worth of data spread over 2 cards, the chance of losing all of your photos to a software glitch in the camera/printer/PC is instantly cut in half.

As for shooting full page spreads with cameras, it's not that great of a testament to their overall quality and ease of use. I've had editors take a shot that I took with a cheapo Nikon coolpix 4600 and use it for a spread. As long as the camera has decent image quality, and was in capable/knowledgable hands, it should be able to get the job done.

The better test of a camera is to give it to a layperson, preferably one with kids, and get their feedback after a couple months. As an example, I bought that Nikon just to have in the car or in my pack in case I saw something I wanted to shoot. It works great outdoors (since my editorial focus is outdoor related, it was fine), but sucked *** indoors because the AA battery architecture made for 10 second delays between flash photos. Tottally unacceptable for my wife to use as her beater camera because she isn't going to tweak any settings, or be able to get any pictures of our 2yr old inside when you're waiting for the flash to recharge.

At the under $200 mark, I don't think you're going to beat the SD1000.

Chris
 
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