Digital Cameras

[SiliGoose]

What's the best quality for the price right now? I have a 2.2 megapixel Canon Powershot right now. It's a fine camera but Canon has never relased WinXP drivers so it's been a pain to get images onto my PC.

I'd like to make a jump in megapixels and a better quality lens would be nice too. What do you guys use? Anyone up to date on the subject?




-Sili

[Sonnie Parker]

Sili I'm not a camera man but I did research and end up buying the Kodak DX3600 at a bargain (streetprice should be around $215 or so). It's XP ready. Has done a fine job for me and my website.

It has 2.2mp with a 6X zoom.

The DX3700 has 3.1mp with 3X zoom for about $30 less.

The DX3900 has 3.1mp with 6X zoom for about $30 more.

I believe there are some others here that recommended the Kodaks to me.






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[Lex]

Well, Bing and I are in the Nikon fan club, both with older model Nikon 990s. Great camera. It's what I shoot all my cable website photos with, and as you can see, I have shot some real winners if you tour my site. As long as their quality doesn't go down in the future, I will stick with Nikon. Good quality optics and exchangable lenses.

Lex

[JonMarsh]

Sony has been great in the past; love my DSC770; Zeiss optics. But when the started putting baby CDR's in the cameras, I had to question there understanding of the concept "reliability".

I've bought some Olympus models for the lab at work, and my girlfriend; they've generall worked very well; hers, an Olympus C700 is a great model for the money, including macro modes, and true 10X optical zoom.

I tend to be a fan of digital cameras that emulate true SLR's as closely as possible; my big Sony is a good example. I also think it's better to focus on the optical features, over just pure CCD resolution; I've seen some real stinkers in image quality from some supposedly high res models, inlcuding well known American brands.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS.HTM

has some excellent in depth camera tests, as well as tutorials; I highly recommend this site for anyone interested in digital photography.

Regards,

Jon




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[SiliGoose]

Thanks for the link...it's good to have a starting point.

Lex,

Is your Nikon the one that twists in the middle? I've admired that design as it seems rather flexible.

I too would like a digicam that closely matches a SLR in flexibility and optics. It just seems that style of digicam has been extremely expensive.




-Sili

[Andrew Pratt]

Silli if you like your canon why not just pick up a card reader? I have a USB compact flash card reader that I use to move images to and from my cards and its very simple to use and much faster then pulling images off the camera with its USB interface.

[SiliGoose]

Holy crap! I totally forgot I have a card reader!!
Thanks Andrew!

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-Sili

[Pat]

Sili, here are a couple of other sites to check:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/

http://www.robgalbraith.com/

http://www.dpreview.com/

I use a Kodak DC290 that I picked up used




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[Lex]

Yes Sili, mine twists in the middle, I think their was 1 or 2 other models at the time that did that. I can just about assure you, as long as this camera is working, for web work, I have no reason to ever change it at this stage because you don't upload to the web in 3.3 megapixels anyway. Yes, maybe you can retain a bit more detail when shrunk down, I don't know for sure. But then, maybe you loose detail after a certain amount of shrinking.

Already, most my pictures are 4 times bigger than I want them for the web.

Lex