Advice please

[T16GEM]

Hi

I thought this was a good a place to start as any with some recommendations as to which point and shoot would be a good one for my upcoming trip to WDW.

I'm looking for something that is quite small, easy to carry and has a good size screen for viewing, I would like for it to have the sport shot facility to take a few pics at a time and choose the good ones. Preferebly with an XD card as we already have a few of these with our current Fuji finepix, and also a movie facility too. I don't really have much of an idea on the budget right now so go ahead and give me what you got!!

Can anyone help with some recommendations please?

Thanks
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[JoeDif]

If you are limiting your choices to cameras that use the xd card them I believe only some Fuji and all of the Olympus p & s cameras use those cards.

 

[T16GEM]

If you are limiting your choices to cameras that use the xd card them I believe only some Fuji and all of the Olympus p & s cameras use those cards.

not limited to xd, any recommendations welcome

 

[zackiedawg]

I'd not worry about the memory card - the prices on those are so cheap now, that you don't want to be making a $100-400 purchase based on a $10 card! You can get 4GB for $25 or less from pretty much any memory card type nowadays, enough for many hundreds of pics.

Cameras worth looking at, for having good portability, good screens, decent performance in lower light, and sports modes:

Fuji F70, Panasonic ZX3, Sony TX1 or WX1, Canon S90 or SD1200. These all seem to have a nice mix of abilities, and are pocket cams. Some are more expensive due to having larger sensors (S90), some larger due to more optical zoom range (ZX3)...but they run a pretty good gamut. The Fuji F70 has a low light feature that reduces resolution to combine pixels for better sensitivity, the Sonys both feature a new backlit sensor design which lets them shoot at higher ISOs for low light with less noise, and the Canon S90 has a significantly larger sensor than most other compacts making it better at low light. The Sonys have several trick features, like 10 frames-per-second burst for sports, automatic multi-frame stacking for low noise and higher sensitivity to light, and another stacking mode to reduce motion blur.

Check them out, and see if any of them look good and feel good to you, and fit your price range!