On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:21 +0100, Barrys linux mail wrote:
samwise wrote:
Anyone got any recommendations or hints / tips for buying a digital camera. Looking at a budget of £100 - £150, for general all-round use
- preferably fairly compact.
Hi just a little tip about digital cameras,It always pays to buy one with a view finder as well as the screen. because in some conditions the screen is useless in setting up a photo(like very bright sunshine).a good model is the Powershot A 500 -600 series made by Cannon.
I have an A520 that I rescued from a wastepaper bin at a clients after it had been dropped (knocking the zoom mechanism out of alignment) and once repaired it took far better pictures than my original Pentax Optio S despite the paper specifications being very close.
Another thing I would watch for on this end of the market is shutter release response times...the Pentax in particular has a very annoying delay which makes it impossible to use for "action" shots. A pity as it is smaller and prettier than the Canon.
P.S. Never try and repair a digital camera unless you really don't care about being successful or not, I have taken a lot of things to bits in my time and managed to put most of them back together again, but that camera was a struggle.