aNdY wrote:
> Hi panno,
>
>     Thanks for your advise. I am stress as I just want to get a very
> powerful good digital camera so that it will last me this life time.
> techniques is changing so fast. I can never catch up. I am tired. very tired
> as I am old too. So, I thought ... just one reasonable good camera will do.
> I have think so much for the past one month so now I am only confused. I
> think I have no choice but go to any shop by fate and if I hold the camera
> and it felt okay, I will just take it. I don't know. beside
> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews , do u know of other places where it has the
> pro and con of camera which can help me narrow down to the best that I want
> so that I can just seek a shop selling it and get it? More advises pls.
> Thanks

OK, I see where you are coming from. I must disappoint you by telling
you that no digital camera available today will last you alifetime. The
technology is changing too fast. And I am able to predict that in
several years of time, the cameras will get the CCD (or CMOS) sensors
which are much more sensitive at high ISO. In other words, with the new
camera, you will be able to shoot in dim light without noise... the
modern mass-consumed cameras cannot do it yet, and this is a major
drawback.

With all that said, I can indicate to you which qualities in the camera
will make it lasting longer. It is the quality of optics. All the
future cameras will have an improvement in the CCD chip and in the
processing electronics which will be cheap, however, the good lenses
will still be the same and will still be expensive. Here is an advice
to you: buy a camera with a really good optics. In several years time,
it will still be doing good pictures compared to the newer cameras with
the better pixel count, better processor and possibly better CCD chip.
Go and do search on dpreview or other places where people sing hymnes
to the good quality of the lens of any particular camera. If you want a
small camera, then pay attention at Panasonic line -- they all have a
Leice lens which is arguably the best. I have the LX1 camera where the
lens is especially good (out of other compact Panasonics).

If you want to go for a large bulku dSLR camera, then you have a more
freedom of choice. The lenses are detachable, and you can find the lens
in the price range from one hundred dollars to several thousand
dollars. It is up to your pocket :-) .

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