Digital camera (1 Viewer)

[desertdude]

Well put Scott. I just bought the Canon G6 for my girlfriend's birthday. With the lens adapter I can use all my lenses from the GL1 video camera including the wide angle lens. It comes Tuesday - hey guess what just in time for CM05

I have been toting around the Canon S10 for the last 5 years. Time for me to get a new camera as well. I look forward to testing it out

this is a well laid out review website for digital camera's

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs.asp

 

[RHINO]

good advise from all, however i am surprised i have not heard one particular cam mentioned. sounds like catmech just wants an easy to use general purpose camera. in my opinion the kodak easy share may be the best deal out there for this.

 

[roscoFJ73]

good advise from all, however i am surprised i have not heard one particular cam mentioned. sounds like catmech just wants an easy to use general purpose camera. in my opinion the kodak easy share may be the best deal out there for this.

Did you see my post#18 Rhino. That one is also from the easy share family and sits on top of the same printer as the smaller cams.

 

[Scamper]

This image was taken with a Sony Cybershot U waterproof camera with 2mp and a fixed 2.8 x 50mm lens. This photo has been featured in Toyota calendar's, etc.

I'm curious...what was it that made that truck reach for the sky, when all I can see next to it is flat sand? There must have been one hell of a bump just out of sight

 

[expeditionswest]

I'm curious...what was it that made that truck reach for the sky, when all I can see next to it is flat sand? There must have been one hell of a bump just out of sight

This will tell you all about my trip and even two videos of the jump.
Altar Desert Sand Dunes

 

[mabrodis]

Wow that's a great picture Scott, and very good info for anyone looking at a digital camera. (Just curious did you play with that picture on a computer? The blue looks too deep, I've never gotten colors quite that saturated with my Nikon 990).

Only thing I would add to Scott's comments is play with whatever camera you get. Pretty much any camera has the ability to push the shutter button half-way down to lock the exposure (how much light the camera determines the picture will need) and the focus, then you can hold the button there until the perfect time comes along then just push the button the rest of the way down and it takes a picture almost instantly. That little trick/feature has not been grasped by everyone and so they are mad at their camera for being too slow. My old (5 yrs old actually) Nikon 990 is slow, no doubt about it, but it still has great features and brilliant clairity and color, and as long as you know how to use it (shutter btn feature, when to force to inifiniti focus/landscape mode, when to force a flash, when to turn off a flash, etc, you can get great pictures with pretty much any camera) you'll do great. Oh and you can't blame a camera for composition of a picture, having a picture framed correctly so it's visually appealing starts when you take it, you can play with it later on a computer, but always easiest if you have a well composed photo to start.

I have a Nikon 990, which could be bought used cheap, friend has a Canon 10D (digital SLR), stepbro has a Nikon 5000 (point/shoot) and a D100 (digital SLR), all are good/great cameras. Personally I would not buy an Olympus/Pentax/Minolta, etc. Minolta maybe, but the other two I have seen major sensor problems later...I'd personally stick to Canon and Nikon.

 

[phlyfish]

The Cannon 20d and 10d can use regular SLR lenses.