Camera choice

peter90 · January 11, 2008, 09:36:18 PM

Which cameras do you think are the best: Canon or Sony?

Anonymous · January 11, 2008, 09:36:37 PM

Nikon

peter90 · January 11, 2008, 09:37:32 PM

at equivalent prices of course

peter90 · January 11, 2008, 09:39:05 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;218557Nikon

nikon is usually more expensive ...

Anonymous · January 11, 2008, 10:57:54 PM

Quote from: peter90;218559nikon is usually more expensive ...

On a purely monetary basis maybe they are, however, I wouldn't change my Nikon D80 for anything

delanvital · January 12, 2008, 12:00:39 AM

Quote from: peter90;218556Which cameras do you think are the best: Canon or Sony?

Between those two, I'd presently say Canon.

DuVeL · January 12, 2008, 12:02:02 AM

Pretty fond of Canon to be honoust.
A shop near my hometown says their the best for their money atm.
That's normally just for the powershots...

T-Bag · January 12, 2008, 12:41:28 AM

Canon are generally better quality in the high price range....but Sony have Carl Zeis lenses and are very small. Depends what you want the camera for...small = sony, bigger high quality = canon.
(My observations anyway)
(The cheap Canons used to be chunky compared to Sonys)

BigFatCat · January 12, 2008, 11:50:20 AM

very happy with my powershot s3, the wife's nikon s10 is useful but not as flexible. take a look at the panasonics with leica lenses, 15x optical zoom which is nice (500mm equivalent).

T-Bag · January 12, 2008, 12:27:00 PM

Quote from: BigFatCat;218593very happy with my powershot s3, the wife's nikon s10 is useful but not as flexible. take a look at the panasonics with leica lenses, 15x optical zoom which is nice (500mm equivalent).

Panasonics are looking good, the Lumix are stylish.

Rabbi Bob · January 12, 2008, 01:01:19 PM

Quote from: BigFatCat;218593very happy with my powershot s3, the wife's nikon s10 is useful but not as flexible. take a look at the panasonics with leica lenses, 15x optical zoom which is nice (500mm equivalent).

I'm extremely happy with my Canon PowerShot S3. The only downsides I could find were that it does not shoot in RAW (however a firmware hack does unlock this on the DigicII chip and I've used that) and it has no hot shoe. I've just ordered an S5 for work and that has a hot shoe, so they've corrected that. I haven't yet tried any add on lenses, but I may be picking some up for the S5 in the near future. Also, the ISO has been raised to 1600 for the S5 from 800. A full review at DPreview.com (a good site to look at camera info) is here.

IIRC, all my Flickr pictures are done with the S3.

P.S. I realized I never blogged about it and I should, but I did post that my Canon Powershot A60 had died, which prompted the S3 buy. A bit later, someone pointed out that Canon had stated that there was a problem with the CCD and listed the symptoms, which were what my A60 was doing. They also put out that they would examine the camera and if the CCD was the issue, they would fix the camera for free regardless of warranty status. Shipping was free in both directions. Two weeks later, I had a working A60 which is now my carry along camera. So ++ to Canon on product support.

TeaLeaf · January 12, 2008, 02:43:18 PM

You ought to send a PM to tugs on these forums - he is a bit of a budding camera guru too and heavily into his digital photography. He might evne post his Flikr link too

Tl.

peter90 · January 12, 2008, 07:34:36 PM

I'm especially interested in cameras with about 10x optical zoom and good quality at auto settings (I'm not a professional).

Luminance · January 12, 2008, 07:39:32 PM

I'm thinking of buying a Canon 400D, but i don't know what price range you want.

Rabbi Bob · January 12, 2008, 08:04:36 PM

Quote from: peter90;218636I'm especially interested in cameras with about 10x optical zoom and good quality at auto settings (I'm not a professional).

Covered.