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Post by coffers on Oct 14, 2007 16:32:51 GMT
Sounds like you've hard your card skimmed somewhere.
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Post by elth on Oct 15, 2007 0:45:26 GMT
Tell your company and get them to reverse it.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 13:27:00 GMT
I'm currently looking for a new digital camera around the £130 mark. Any recomendations or one to avoid would be welcome. It's about time my current 1.3meg FujiPix got the heave-ho as my phone camera can take better pictures. Currently thinking of going for a Nikon Coolpix S200, 7mega pixels, 2.5" screen, 3x Optical zoom, Electronic image stabalisation and face detection (Keeps faces in focus even thought they aren't at the centre of the image).
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 16, 2007 13:33:12 GMT
Get a bigger optical zoom.
Unless you're taking pictures of people exclusively, a 3x will piss you off.
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Post by floplexter on Oct 16, 2007 13:45:58 GMT
I paid a total of about £180 all in with p&p, 1Gb card, case, batteries and charger for a Finepix 5600 with 10x optical zoom. It's a belter of a camera - a real beauty and I couldn't be happier with it- www.pixmania.comHeartily recommended. I think it was about £160 without all the extras or somesuch.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 16, 2007 13:49:59 GMT
I've got an oooooooold Finepix 5000. 22x zoom. It's a great camera, although slow to start up. Because it's old. And bulky, because the lens has to be big for an optical zoom that size.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 14:10:59 GMT
I really need a compact type, if it was just for me I'd go for the old SLR styling, but I want something that I can just stick in a pocket and not have to walk around in lob-sided circles. What's the minimum zoom that I should look for? My current camera is a Fujipix A105 I think, with no zoom facility. Thanks for that anyway Pops, If I went that route I think it would have to be the SS700 version now. (£149.99)
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 16, 2007 14:14:36 GMT
I think if you can get a 5x you'll be happier. I don't know how far these things can go now and still be compact. If there was a compact 8x I'd go for that.
I know what you mean about walking in circles though. My camera weighs about the same as Nark.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 14:34:35 GMT
There's a Ricoh Caplio R6 that does 7x wide angle zoom at £149.50. Also has 7megapix and electronic image stabalisation. Comes in black, red or silver.
I guess I need to visit a shop in person and try things out, just to see what the zoom gives me.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 16, 2007 14:35:20 GMT
7x will be just fine, unless you're specifically trying to get pictures of the lass across the street.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 14:47:31 GMT
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Post by meej on Oct 16, 2007 15:01:43 GMT
I would go for the good optic: Sony, Nikon (my choice) or Canon.
Good optic beats good resolution with a big stick, the beating being with the big stick not the resolution. Otherwise resolution would not be beaten so soundly, and maybe would get in some beting of its own too.
I hope I've made my self clear. If not, blame the cheap optic.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 15:14:20 GMT
Cheers Meej. I may have to make do with a 3x zoom based on what I'm prepared to pay, whatever, it's better than the zoom I already have. I may end up getting this one as I can get 20% at PCWorld via a distant family member. My son had one before his current camera and it produced decent pictures for what we need it for. I always liked Carl Zeiss lenes, from when I had a proper SLR camera, (Praktika and Miranda). That's going back some years.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 16, 2007 15:49:08 GMT
Zeiss make good lenses. As anyone shot by a German sniper in WWII will tell you.
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Post by meej on Oct 16, 2007 16:10:35 GMT
I'm sorry, my graphic card won't let me play Airborne. Or vice versa.
It's nice getting good discounts on internal errors. I recently got a Nikon L10 - it's just 5x and 5 Mpixels, but then again it was £60. You can shoot an untold number of babies with it, as any German sniper in WWII will tell you. After breakfast.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 16:13:36 GMT
I'm sorry, my graphic card won't let me play Airborne. Or vice versa. It's nice getting good discounts on internal errors. I recently got a Nikon L10 - it's just 5x and 5 Mpixels, but then again it was £60. You can shoot an untold number of babies with it, as any German sniper in WWII will tell you. After breakfast. I'll look into that one meej, It's just the catalogue I'm looking at, at the moment, doesn't have anything bolow 7mpixels. I'll hunt around the web a bit.
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Post by meej on Oct 16, 2007 17:36:00 GMT
Mine was a clearing house offer thing, that's why it was so cheap at an actual not online store. It felt weird, buying electronics offline. Quaint. Pixmania.
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Post by coffers on Oct 16, 2007 19:06:42 GMT
If that's the spec of the L10 and you are happy with that I'll probably go for the Nikon I originally targeted. Cheers Meej. It should come in around the £100 mark after discount.
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Post by elth on Oct 16, 2007 23:15:37 GMT
I need to get a digital camera for my trip to Spain and I too want a compact. 7x optical you say? Hmmm.
I shall have to investigate prices, I don't want to pay a lot for I am a cheap bastard.
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Post by coffers on Oct 17, 2007 0:25:38 GMT
The one meej is talking about seems to be a 3x optical on the link he gives, though he says his is 5x optical. The 7x optical come with price tags beyound what I want to pay really, so I'll probably live with the 3x, it's still beter than what I have already and that does me ok apart from when it comes to enlargements.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 17, 2007 0:35:12 GMT
5x will suit you fine elth - I just don't like 3x because if you're close enough to something that 3x is going to make a difference then you can just walk closer. Coffers doesn't have any zoom on his current camera so it's all good for him.
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Post by elth on Oct 17, 2007 1:13:08 GMT
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Post by meej on Oct 17, 2007 5:32:00 GMT
If it misbehaves, I just hit it with a rolled newspaper up the zoom, elth. Looks fine, but I don't know about the price with such silly currency.
Yes, it's 3x not 5x. It's not much of a zoom but basically I use it to "frame" pictures. Not so much to zoom in as to set the area I am going to photograph.
Including noses.
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Post by Sonic on Oct 17, 2007 6:08:53 GMT
The biggest thing with digital camera's to ask your sell first is how big you want your pictures to be processed to when getting them developed(or whoever it's done with a digital), then all the rest. If your after happy snaps, normal shots, then all that sounds fine.
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Post by coffers on Oct 17, 2007 7:55:01 GMT
That looks a decent spec Elth, might look that up here.
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