Which camera would you recomend??

[baggieboy]

Hi there,

We are going to wembley on monday to watch West Brom return to the premiership and wanted a new digital camera to take. We have between £150 and £250.

Does anyone on here recomend a certain camera which would produce excellent results in that price range ?

thanks

[baggieboy]

[tim]

A camera JUST for Wembley??

Digital or SLR?

Yesterday's ideas - both 5 star choices.

Fuji Fine Pix F40fd £200
Sony Cybershot T100 £250

[Melbourne12]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-CANON-POWERSHOT-S3-IS-6MP-DIGITAL-VIDEO-CAMERA-2GB_W0QQitemZ290119019918QQihZ019QQcategoryZ31388QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've got one of these (I realise that you haven't got time to order it mail order, but it was the easiest link I could find)

It's absolutely super.  The one disadvantage is that it's quite large (like an old-fashioned camera), rather than one of these super-slim things.

[baggieboy]

thanks for the replys , not just for wembly Tim but told my GF needed a new one to fit the ground on  ;D

[northener]

Hope they do it Baggie so the 7-0 thumping you gave us was justified. I'd go Fuji. 1st digital i had much better than the canon i have now. PC world doing a good one less then £100. Have a good un

[prink13]

No t ahuge help - but my advise is, if you are after a new Digital SLR, stick with whoever made your old SLR, as generally the lenses etc. will fir the new digital

Kathi ;)

[tim]

Are not digi-SLRs hugely expensive?

[Melbourne12]

Are not digi-SLRs hugely expensive?

You can get makes like Panasonic within baggieboy's budget, but I've no idea of the quality.  They don't have removable lenses, but typically a zoom lens.  I'd rather have a decent lens from Canon or Nikon and a viewfinder.

And prink13, it's been a while since I bought a serious camera, and my "nice" kit is still all 35mm film, but I thought that digital SLRs needed different focal length lenses from 35mm ones? So even if the lenses physically fit, they won't be much use.

[tim]

Can't recall price, but ours are Fuji S5600 & Canon PowerShot S1IS.

Our older Canon A70 has a wide angle lens which I use a lot. But the lens is not transferrable.

I would LOVE a through the lens digi-camera - SO much more critical.

[Georgie]

Can I suggest that you check your ticket terms and conditions carefully.  Cameras were not allowed at the cup final.    >:(

G x

[tim]

That might save you a penny or two?

[baggieboy]

is that right georgie  :-\ never crossed my mind

[Georgie]

I'm afraid so.  No doubt it's designed so that Wembley can make even more money by charging outrageous prices for 'official' photographs.   >:(

G x

[redimp]

In which case you want a small one so you can smuggle it unnoticed.

PS - I should have been there today - we wuz robbed ;D

[Obelixx]

We have a Panasonic Lumix with 12x optical zoom.  We chose it because I am used to an SLR and like to use an eye piece to view shots - also saves me searching for reading glasses to use the LCD display which OH prefers.   It's a bit bigger than the f*g packet types so I'm going to have to get a new summer handbag.......

If I ever save the pennies - gardening goodies tend to come first - I will by a digital body to go with all the lenses for my old Minolta SLR.  A friend did that with his Nikon and has had no problems with his lenses.

[redimp]

I plan to do the same by buying a Pentax DSLR.  At the moment I have a Pentax Optio 60 which is a bit rubbish at low light - don't know if the new models are any better.

[MattyJC]

Cant fault the Sony digi cams. Had a few and they have always been most reliable. As a personal thing, I prefer a camera with the rechargeable batteries. The OH compact just eats AA batteries, which adds to you running costs no end.

Obbelix, I upgraded from my Minolta SLR to the Sony Alpha SLR and I cant fault it. I had a sigma 70-300mm lens and it works perfectly, as do some other minolta lenses. Ive had some very good results...the link to my photo page is on here, so have a look!

Regards

Matt

[mc55]

I got a Canon Ixus 850IS for my birthday - it is a thing of beauty and has a huge screen, can't wait to try it out at the lottie

[DadnDom]

I can reccomend the Canon 350d. Head and shoulders above it's rivals as far as quality is concerned.

[Obelixx]

Thanks for that MattyJC, but I can't find the link to your photos.   Could you point me? 

Here are mine - http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/obelixxbe/my_photos - which includes albums of gardens visited and Chelsea as well as my own plot.