What kind of camera do you have? Do you like it?

norm

Zanne wrote:

I bet you never get a blurry pic with that cam.. to have image stabilization on a 4x optical zoom is almost overkill.

beats me....i just wanna take pics and the is helps.....cool pic of the cat

Zanne

cutback wrote:

beats me....i just wanna take pics and the is helps.....cool pic of the cat

The whole purpose behind IS is that when you are zoomed up it's harder to get a crisp picture.. IS is like having a gyroscope built into your cam to make up for the shake that is natural while holding a cam trying to get a far away shot up close. Does that make sense? That's why you see IS on high zoom cams.. It's necessary. As it becomes more affordable, it seems that adding IS to a lower zoom cam (i.e. 4x) will make next to impossible to get a blurry shot.

LikeAnOcean

oops, wrong thread!

Canons seem nice.. I have an old Sony and like it.

norm

Zanne wrote:

will make next to impossible to get a blurry shot.

haha....yea well my dog hasn't got that message....:D

Vedd Hedd

Lots of good suggestions for me to research.

Does anyone have a camera in particular that takes good dark/concert pics?

Zanne

Vedd Hedd wrote:

Lots of good suggestions for me to research.

Does anyone have a camera in particular that takes good dark/concert pics?

All the canon IS series I have used at concerts take good shots in the dark.. Sony used to make the best cams for dark situations, but I can't vouch for that anymore seeing as Sony's choice to use proprietary memory made me stray away from their products. The DSC S85 was a great cam for dark shots and very true and vibrant daylight shots as well. It's an old cam now, was 4MP.

Zanne

cutback wrote:

haha....yea well my dog hasn't got that message....:D

What? He didn't get the memo???

Try some of your settings, such as sport settings, for shooting a moving target. Use program or manual modes and play with ISO and aperature settings.. eventually you'll settle your wiley pup.

Vedd Hedd

cutback wrote:

got this a while ago....love it

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Optical-Stabilized/dp/B000Q30420/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1208397306&sr=8-1

Thats one of the ones I was looking at.

I think theres also a 10 MP version as well.

And your assessment of night photos/concert photos?

And thanks everyone!

South of Seattle

I have a 6 mp Nikon point and shoot. My old 2 mp canon elph and cell phone both take better pictures. I need a new camera badly. :(

Zanne

Vedd Hedd wrote:

Lots of good suggestions for me to research.

Does anyone have a camera in particular that takes good dark/concert pics?

Look at these.. they're not the best pics ever, but keep in mind they were taken from the 21st row at Grand Rapids '06 by me, a 5'4" girl (no flash of course) with a Canon S2 IS, 5MP 12x optical zoom cam.

http://pearljam.dreamhosters.com/Images/

Peace

norm

Vedd Hedd wrote:

Thats one of the ones I was looking at.

I think theres also a 10 MP version as well.

And your assessment of night photos/concert photos?

And thanks everyone!

here's pics i took at the red sox/dodgers game at the la coliseum.....

http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k16/cutback32/red%20sox%20vs%20dodgers%203-29-08/

Zanne

cutback wrote:

here's pics i took at the red sox/dodgers game at the la coliseum.....

http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k16/cutback32/red%20sox%20vs%20dodgers%203-29-08/

I LOVE the one of the shoes!

norm

Zanne wrote:

I LOVE the one of the shoes!

there were there for almost all of the dodgers bp.....that's why i love digital cameras....shoot it all and sort it out later

Vedd Hedd

cutback wrote:

there were there for almost all of the dodgers bp.....that's why i love digital cameras....shoot it all and sort it out later

Were most of those taken from the same location? I mean, for example, was the picture of the shoes taken from the same distance as the other shots inside the coliseum? If so, thats a great zoom.

Vedd Hedd

Zanne wrote:

Look at these.. they're not the best pics ever, but keep in mind they were taken from the 21st row at Grand Rapids '06 by me, a 5'4" girl (no flash of course) with a Canon S2 IS, 5MP 12x optical zoom cam.

http://pearljam.dreamhosters.com/Images/

Peace

Not bad!!

Gotta love the 12x optical zoom, eh?

norm

Vedd Hedd wrote:

Were most of those taken from the same location? I mean, for example, was the picture of the shoes taken from the same distance as the other shots inside the coliseum? If so, thats a great zoom.

starting with the shoes pic all shots were from my seat

Zanne

Vedd Hedd.. Getting the right cam for you depends on a lot of factors.. what size of cam will you want? You say to not look like a tourist, but that's not quite enough info.. Do you want an elph? Tiny like that? A mid-size cam with greater zoom? the SX-IS series is in this range.. anything over that would probably be too large for your liking.. You will give up some features when you give up size, but it's all relative to what you are after and how much you are willing to spend.

Toolgarden

What's a megapixel?
Just kidding. But I hate digital cameras. Being as I have a fine art degree in photography, I am a bit of a snob for old-fashioned silver hylide crystals. Go analog!

ok

Heineken Helen

Zanne wrote:

There are two different models.. one is the D40 and one is the D40x.. the difference is that the D40 is 6.1MP and the D40x is 10.2MP.

I do love it very much.. and I have been a solid Canon user for years.. the same $ range of Canon is not nearly as fast.. Let me clarify.. Not nearly as fast to REVIEW your pics. Canon has a history (in my experience) of being brutally slow during review.

The D40 is the one I'm aiming to buy... eh... what's the price difference between the D40 and the D40x?

Schoki

I´ve got a Ricoh digital camera, unfortunately a low budget one.
The lenses are pretty good but the rest sucks. I can really recommend the optical lenses Ricoh uses since it is my 3rd Ricoh cam but u should invest at least into midlle class cams.