Digital Cameras, which ones are the best?

[Got Quattro?]

good advice here. my pentax slr happens to have just 6 mp. love it. lenses are very important too but I think we're straying from the budget set out in the first post

I have Minolta Maxum 5d, it's about 2 years old and is only 6.1 mega pixals and $700 + just for the body. But i have 5 different lenses, that were from my traditional film Minolta camera. It;s just big to carry around.

My pocket camera is a nikon coolpix...only 2.0 megapixals...but it's still a great camera. perfect for home movie making and internet photos.

 

[eeyoresnr]

Just to throw my two cents in, I would suggest not getting a Sony. Some of their models have had a problem with the glue that holds the CCD in place behind the lens. Also some of the things Sony has done as a company have been outright criminal. Their music division put a root kit on all their CDs that would allow Sony to take over your computer whenever they want. They got caught and the only thing the courts made them do was pay 150 bucks to people that paid to have it removed from thier computers. I have personally bought many Sony products in the past but I will no longer give them any of my money. Incidentally I just ordered a Canon Powershot G9 yesterday.

wow...when did this happen? we have a sony digital camera that we bought in 05 and love it....I wasn't aware of the computer problems? tell me more

 

[daisyduck123]

We have the new Olympus Stylus 770 SW...it's waterproof to 35ft. & dropproof from 5ft.

We have taken it in the wavepool at TL, the lazy rivers at the WDW waterparks. It's great!!

It was $379.00 at Best Buy this past May.

 

[handicap18]

This questions comes up a lot over on the photography board. You might want to head over there and look at some threads or ask the same question there.

You can find it either by going back to the main forum page and scrolling down the the Just For Fun area (just under the Community Board) or click on the picture link in my signature.

 

[disneyaggie]

Just to throw my two cents in, I would suggest not getting a Sony. Some of their models have had a problem with the glue that holds the CCD in place behind the lens. Also some of the things Sony has done as a company have been outright criminal. Their music division put a root kit on all their CDs that would allow Sony to take over your computer whenever they want. They got caught and the only thing the courts made them do was pay 150 bucks to people that paid to have it removed from thier computers. I have personally bought many Sony products in the past but I will no longer give them any of my money. Incidentally I just ordered a Canon Powershot G9 yesterday.

YIKES! I did not know this! Thank goodness I don't play CD's on my computer. That is very scary!

I have a Sony Cybershot and like it -- wish I knew this information before because I would have boycotted them! Good to know for my next purchases though!

 

[CanadianGuy]

I've moved this over to the Photography board. The experts here will give some great help!

Knox

 

[boBQuincy]

Just to throw my two cents in, I would suggest not getting a Sony.

I am afraid I would have to agree with those thoughts on Sony. They have done some things that border on illegal and are notorious for dropping products and leaving consumers hanging.

On to the better things: we like Canon cameras, Nikons are good too. We prefer to stay with camera companies instead of electronics companies that recently started making cameras. The camera companies seem to understand photography better.

Read the manual, yep, it's very important. Know your camera's limitations, like ISO and noise levels. And hold the camera up to your eye, it's hard to take a good photograph holding the camera at arms length. Camera doesn't have a viewfinder? Get another model!

 

[pjacobi]

I can never figure out how to successfully use all of those settings on the little turndial of a digital camera even with the accompanying manual.


Good pictures are not made by the camera, they are made by the photographer. If you don't take the effort to know your equipment, compose the scene with proper lighting, then your pictures will always be limited, reguardless of what camera you use.

If you buy a new camera, take the effort and learn how to use it. Buying the camera is the easy part.


-Paul

 

[My2Girls66]

I'm usually a Nikon person but last X-mas I bought 1 of my DD's a Canon A540because it has a viewfinder and the similarly priced Nikons didn't. Its a great little p&s camera. I hike with it when I don't feel like carrying my D50. The
A560 is a newer model and is $150 at Best Buy and Circuit City.

 

[bumbershoot]

We're probably looking at a new digital camera too, as it seems we have lost our Olympus. I can't find my film camera, either, also an Olympus. Dark times, I tell you, dark times.

I have a weird bias towards Olympus, but so many of our friends use Canon (and obviously I see that here too). Can anyone tell me why Canon is better?

I definitely agree, by the way, that the photgrapher is more important. I took some great shots with my 1980s Minolta point and shoot, better than I've taken with my nicer and newer Olympus film camera. Alas the Minolta is almost destroyed (still in existence though) and I've retired it.

Nice thing about a new digital camera will be actually HAVING the manual...our digitals have been gifts when FIL grew tired of them and replaced them, and he was not a manual keeper. (yeah yeah I could have gone online but I didn't)

Anyway, thanks in advance if anyone has Canon vs Olympus thoughts!!!

 

[Jazmine8]

Rule #1...just beacuse camera A has 10 mega pixals, does not make it better than camera B with only 6 mega pixals.

Rule #2...see rule #1

Rule #3...Optical zoom is always better than digital zoom, most serious cameras dont even have digital zoom...it only adds noise to your pix

That is good to know I wasn't sure which was better optical or digital zoom. I did take photography back in what now seems the dinosaur age (only ten years ago, wow am I really getting that old ) I 'll take in account everyones posts and just play around with the camera I choose and become a beter amatuer photographer before I hit the parks.