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
A camera JUST for Wembley??
Digital or SLR?
Yesterday's ideas - both 5 star choices.
Fuji Fine Pix F40fd £200
Sony Cybershot T100 £250
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.
thanks for the replys , not just for wembly Tim but told my GF needed a new one to fit the ground on ;D
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
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 ;)
Are not digi-SLRs hugely expensive?
Quote from: tim on May 22, 2007, 16:56:43
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.
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.
Can I suggest that you check your ticket terms and conditions carefully. Cameras were not allowed at the cup final. >:(
G x
That might save you a penny or two?
is that right georgie :-\ never crossed my mind
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
I can reccomend the Canon 350d. Head and shoulders above it's rivals as far as quality is concerned.
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.
Obbelix, sounds like you have the same camera as me: the Panasonic Lumix FZ30. Still doing only basic things with it - there's so much to learn to use! And yes, it's too big for my handbag too ;D.
Must have the link on another forum profile then.
Try
www.flickr.com/photos/13604191@N00/
Feel free to comment, Im still learning!
Regards
Matt
Hi Jill - I have barely used th efeatures on mine but promise myself I will read the manual and play with it on holiday. Too busy otherwise.
MattyJC - I see you like steam power. Cracking photos. When is the Dorset fair? I like your shots of Abingdon Weir too.
I've used Minolta and Canon film camera's for years. 3 years ago I bought a Sony Cyber P5. Great little camera. This year I went looking for a digital SLR. Checked out the Canon 350 and the newer 400. Both looked good and in fact my son has the 350 and is very happy with it. How-ever, my lenses, Minolta, Sigma and Tamron (18-70; 300-400; macro, wide angle; 70-210 etc) which fitted my Minolta 35mm will not fit a Canon. They do fit on the new Sony Alpha 100.
Sony took over Minolta last year and decided to keep the lens fitting as per Minolta. Result is I have a superb digiSLR for a bit less than the Canon and all my lenses fit, saving me a fortune. I would put the Sony Alpha an a par, if not better than the latest Canon's which are not as comfortable to hols an the Sony.
Pic quality is superb.
Thanks Kenkew. Taht sounds good to me. I've found some online but there's a big difference in price between UK and Belgium so I'll have to wait a while till I'm over in the UK again.