Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!proxad.net!216.239.36.134.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Panno Zhai" Newsgroups: fj.comp.dev.digital-camera,rec.photo.digital Subject: Re: Seeking advise on good digital camera Date: 10 Jun 2006 03:14:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1149934468.521646.314220@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.6.138.41 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1149934472 20990 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2006 10:14:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:14:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.6.138.41; posting-account=d72C1Q0AAAAzPGL2a1-0ECLYHhc4LC-9 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.comp.dev.digital-camera:2341 aNdY, Here is a constructive advice. (It is not mine -- I got it from other website). Go to your friends and look at the album of their photos. Choose the ones which you like. Then anaylse them and try to understand, in which conditions they were taken. E.g. either it was the pictures of birds in the wild which were taken with a 10x ultrazoom acemra, or were those the party pictures taken by a compact camera with low-light capability. After that you will be able to decide what CLASS of camera you need. Then read the reviews of the cameras of that class, pick up 2 or 3 or 4, and then go to the shop and buy ANY of them. The cameras of the same class from different manufacturers have the same capability. You cannot go wrong by choosing one over another. You should buy that one which you really like. It happens -- love from the first side. And you might dislike the ergonomics of the camera which you did not like. The other advice would be to get a cheap digital camera, and use it for while. After that you will understand what exactly quality you need in a camera. This is what I did -- I bought Kodak C330 on sale for US$150, and after half a year I realised I was ready for something better, and after a short agony over Fuji F10/F11/F30, Canon A700, Panasonic LX1 and TZ1 I realised I needed LX1 and that's what I bought. I am happy with the choice. Though, at the moment I realise that 90% of all the pictures I snap with Pana LX1 I could do with my old Kodak C330, but that's a different story... :-) \/