T i m wrote:
Hi All,
I am interested in a 'pocketable' digi-cam with reasonable quality
(for typical indoor / outdoor 'snapshots'), good battery life (ideally
replaceable if not std cells) with expandable memory and not a fortune
(so ~?100 etc) please?
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For 1/10th of your budget: I have a Fuji FinePix A204 (it was ~130GBP in
2002), you can buy on ebay for around 10 pounds these days. I got it as
a gift and it has been my only digital camera apart from a Nikon D70.
It takes xD cards (5 pounds for a 128Mb) and 2xAA batteries (I use
rechargeable and they last for a few hundreds pictures).
It's a 2 MP but it has a great white balance almost in every condition.
I use it in the kitchen (full of flour etc), and when taking pictures of
DIY achievements with my hands too dirty to use my other DSLR.
You can print up to 13x18cm (7x5), no problems.
An italian cake:
http://www.ibalossi.it/fotopublic/pa...iafiles/l1.jpg
Plastering:
http://i13.tinypic.com/4vgz96t.jpg
SWMBO waiting for dinner:
http://i12.tinypic.com/62x9990.jpg
I also take it with me when I don't want to carry heavy gear.
I put some examples here in various conditions of light indoor and outdoor
(as you can see there is no editing):
http://www.ibalossi.it/fotopublic/tmp/
This camera fell a number of times, it's dirty, full of dust, stains, etc,
and I am tempted to buy another one as a backup...
I've used also a Canon Ixus 400 (not mine), I like the way it "feels": it's
quite compact and it seems of solid built, but I prefer the Fuji for the
pictures.
Just one thing: don't play the megapixel game! MP is just one measure,
but it's much better to have a 6MP camera like the Nikon D70 than a 10MP
camera with a small sensor.
Forget about mobile phone cameras, even if they are 5MP, the sensor is too
small and too noisy unless you have plenty of light (and I mean *plenty*,
clear sky at 3000m is just about the minimum). This is probably the best you
can get with a 3MP Nokia N80, compare with the 2MP above...
http://www.ibalossi.it/fotopublic/panorama.jpg
(click to enlarge).
F
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