Digital camera
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Rage wrote:
What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient.
I am very surprised, you havent even mentioned price as a criteria.:^) You must be one of the managers. No offence intended though.:laugh: Abhishek
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Rage wrote:
What are important for me is quickness
Then the D50 DSLR is your choice. The Coolpix is a good camera but a good deal slower than the D50. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Rage wrote:
What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient.
I am very surprised, you havent even mentioned price as a criteria.:^) You must be one of the managers. No offence intended though.:laugh: Abhishek
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Rage wrote:
What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient.
I am very surprised, you havent even mentioned price as a criteria.:^) You must be one of the managers. No offence intended though.:laugh: Abhishek
AbhishekBK wrote:
You must be one of the managers
You meant "you must _not_ be a manager". For managers, price comes before anything. :^) The two examples I gave are ~490euros. Same price = no criteria. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
I've just bought a Canon A610, mainly because it has the features I want, the price is good, I think it is now, or will soon be obsolete, so the price has dropped to 140 GBP Also I bought a Kingston Elite Pro 1GB SD card, the lag between shots is now very short, I found it at 17.99 GBP from Guernsey of all places. It will hold c 360 shots at the highest quality. The best advice I got was read the reviews, and then try the camera, once you have tried some of them you won't want to buy them because they won't suit you, regrdless of the reviews!
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
No FOV crop access to canon's excellent array of lenses. Only down side is there is no weather sealing. The canon digital rebel makes an excellent entry level digital slr however and is much cheaper. For a little more, however, I think the 20d will shoot 5fps with an on time of .2 seconds. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage" -- Jean Anouilh
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
If you're looking for a digital SLR, then I'd recommend the Nikon D50 over a Canon. I have a Canon EOS Rebel Ti 35 mm, and a Nikon's D50. The Nikon is excellent, with a large selection of lenses and great continous shooting characteristics. Batteries last approximately 400 on-board flash shots or 1500 non-flash. Canon has an annoying "flash-strobe" effect for auto focus assist and red eye correction, while the Nikon uses a simple white light. Check out the comparison here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page19.asp[^]
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
I went for the D50 and those 2 lenses you are saying (althought it did cost almost 900€ last February :sigh:). I bought it because I already had lenses and flashes from other (non digital) Nikon SLRs. I can use the old lenses, but the flases can only be used in manual mode (you need to buy a modern flash). You can take 4 shots per second, and it only takes 0.2 seconds to switch on. And the battery is something that surprised me (it lasted a whole week of holidays in Ireland). You get more Mpixels for the same price with the Coolpix, but I preffer SLRs. It seems that Canon's digital SLRs are better, but I went for the Nikon for the reasons I told before. Hope it helped ;) Jose Antonio I. López Error! Signature can't exceed 10Gb of size!
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
You should definately check out the Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D in Europe). I have a prosumer camera, Olympus 7070WZ. It's very good (everything from image sharpness, features, ergonomics and mechanics) and much smaller than a true SLR but the autofocus is a slow in dim conditions. I wouldn't care much about it if it wasn't for that I'm into UW-photo. Also, it's very slow if you work in RAW. The general speed of most cameras varies alot depending on what flash card you use. Make sure you get a fast card. Both the Canon and the Olympus were selected as EISA Award best in the category 2005/2006. I would test the autofocus before I bought the camera. Test it indoor with not that much light. Test it on tricky objects like cats and dogs (fur).
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
I would consider a Fuji S9000/S9500 or a Kodak P880 as alternative to the Coolpix 8800. Both have had great critics (owns a P880 myself). Both are a 1/2 or 1 "generation more mature" than the 8800, solving some major problems with especially noise. The P880 is however still a "slow" camera, prefering a lot of light/low ISO-settings. I think most critics would say the D50 (dSLR cameras in general) is the better camera. The problem is however the price and the weight of the "total package", i.e. camera plus extra lences etc. I had/have a Pentax film SLR, but love my P880 for being small, transportable, and still handling :cool:most situations. Also I find that the electronic viewfinder makes imagecomposition easy. DaM
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Rage wrote:
What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient.
I am very surprised, you havent even mentioned price as a criteria.:^) You must be one of the managers. No offence intended though.:laugh: Abhishek
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Hi, I just bought a Nikon D200 (well it's not so cheap) but I can definitely recommend this camera. It's fast, reliable and well organized. But to decide on which camera to buy, mostly when looking for a SLR the lens are the main factor. Alot of people say the body of an SLR doesn't count so much. If you have bad lens a good body is obsolete. If you have lenses from an analog camera I would stick to the brand you had before. So if you have Canon lens, take a Canon body, otherwise you have to buy the lenses all again. If you have no lenses then my opinion is, it doesn't make a big difference if you choose Canon or Nikon. Just take what suites you. There was a Sony SLR released not long ago. It might be an option to the main players Canon and Nikon. For very good details about all sorts of cameras I prefer the site: http://www.dpreview.com Have fun Daniel :-)
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Always Reflex! if the size is not important. I have Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Dynax 5D (Now bought for Sony) I think that stabilizer is important. Seems that D50 don't have it. Good page with camera reviews: http://www.steves-digicams.com/ in spanish: http://www.quesabesde.com/ Excuse my english, please.
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Also pay attention to the autofocus delay (aka shutter lag). If you've ever taken a picture of absolutely nothing because whatever you were pointed at ran/flew/hopped/slithered away while your camera was groping for its buttcheeks with both hands, then you understand what I mean. When shopping, I like to take two cameras, point them at something with not much contrast, and click the shutter. Whichever one takes longer gets handed back to the salesman. The last time I looked, I wasn't impressed with Nikons, but I was at a lower price point than you are. Oh, and inevitably, when shutter lag is mentioned, some chucklehead suggests prefocusing. Yes, prefocusing removes some (but not all) shutter lag, but it only works if you only take pictures of things that aren't moving, such as mountains or the US soccer team. Any camera will work fine for "Still Life With Fruit", but try that with a dragonfly or a hyperactive 2 year old and see what you get. Enjoy your new toy! -- prr
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Hi, If you were to buy a digital camera, what would you take ? Are the Nikon "Coolpix"s good ? How about the Canons ? I am hesitating between a Nikon Coolpix 8800 (which is sold 490euros), and a Nikon Reflex D50 + 18/55 mm + 55/200 mm sold 650euros (or 499 for the Nikon alone). What are important for me is quickness ( I do not want to wait 2 seconds between two shots or 5 seconds when I switch on the camera before being able to take a picture), and loadable battery. I think 6M pixels is sufficient. ~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
An incredible site that I've used a lot over the years for camera reviews and buying decisions is http://imaging-resource.com/[^] It has everything you'd want to know about cameras and can help you narrow down your choices and options based on your price range or recommended picks. It also includes very detailed reviews and side by sides of what any camera's performance looks like using different lighting conditions and objects. Happy camera hunting :-D A programmer with a dream can accomplish anything. So, start by implementing your castle in the clouds and then working on its interface to a foundation :-D Quote by: Jeremy Pemberton-Pigott