Recommend me a camera please (£100-£130)
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Hi.
Hopefully a straight forward question here.
I’m after a digital camera, nothing flash, but I’d like something that can do a little more should I wish than a more basic digital camera.
For some reason I’m drawn to Canons, had a few and always liked them, and spotted this;
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/categories/Com...
Looks like a decent deal and looks like it’d do the trick. Thoughts from the experts please?
But, anything else I should look at around the £100 range?
Cheers.
Hopefully a straight forward question here.
I’m after a digital camera, nothing flash, but I’d like something that can do a little more should I wish than a more basic digital camera.
For some reason I’m drawn to Canons, had a few and always liked them, and spotted this;
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/categories/Com...
Looks like a decent deal and looks like it’d do the trick. Thoughts from the experts please?
But, anything else I should look at around the £100 range?
Cheers.
Your criteria is far too vague, but in all honesty, I'd up the budget, and look for something 2-3 years old that meets it.
You'll have a far better camera as a result, and potentially less likelihood of it going wrong.
You buy something at £100, by month 13 if it goes wrong, it's only fit for the bin and you're buying another one.
Even if it doesn't. and you fancy moving up or doing photography that it isn't the best at, you'll find it hard to even give it away.
With a decent camera, you'll find it's still sellable and realise more of your money back.
I imagine if all that falls on deaf ears, then whichever budget camera you opt for, it'll be much of a muchness compared to every other brand's offering in the same price bracket.
You'll have a far better camera as a result, and potentially less likelihood of it going wrong.
You buy something at £100, by month 13 if it goes wrong, it's only fit for the bin and you're buying another one.
Even if it doesn't. and you fancy moving up or doing photography that it isn't the best at, you'll find it hard to even give it away.
With a decent camera, you'll find it's still sellable and realise more of your money back.
I imagine if all that falls on deaf ears, then whichever budget camera you opt for, it'll be much of a muchness compared to every other brand's offering in the same price bracket.
PJ S said:
Your criteria is far too vague, but in all honesty, I'd up the budget, and look for something 2-3 years old that meets it.
You'll have a far better camera as a result, and potentially less likelihood of it going wrong.
You buy something at £100, by month 13 if it goes wrong, it's only fit for the bin and you're buying another one.
Even if it doesn't. and you fancy moving up or doing photography that it isn't the best at, you'll find it hard to even give it away.
With a decent camera, you'll find it's still sellable and realise more of your money back.
I imagine if all that falls on deaf ears, then whichever budget camera you opt for, it'll be much of a muchness compared to every other brand's offering in the same price bracket.
Thanks for that.You'll have a far better camera as a result, and potentially less likelihood of it going wrong.
You buy something at £100, by month 13 if it goes wrong, it's only fit for the bin and you're buying another one.
Even if it doesn't. and you fancy moving up or doing photography that it isn't the best at, you'll find it hard to even give it away.
With a decent camera, you'll find it's still sellable and realise more of your money back.
I imagine if all that falls on deaf ears, then whichever budget camera you opt for, it'll be much of a muchness compared to every other brand's offering in the same price bracket.
That was my thinking with the canon I linked to. It was £250 ish last year so thought it may still be decent.
To be honest, I don't have the first idea what I'm looking at with cameras no matter the budget.
But, I don't want to spend to much as it will be coming skiing, mountain biking and on the motor bike so will get a bit of a hard time.
I was more pushing you to look at cameras in the £400-500 bracket a couple of years ago, which are now in the £200 region.
Better built, better features, more apt to allow you to develop your creative side away from the Auto setting, and etc, etc.
If you're doing skiing/snow stuff, then I'd say you're almost certainly going to want to look at a bridge camera which will let you screw on ND (neutral density) and CPL (circular polarising lens) filters to counteract the light reflecting off the snow and overloading the sensor.
Then again, if you're not going to be getting all David Bailey, I would say stick with an iPhone's/iPod's camera or Sony Droid one.
It'll do as good a job, and if already owned, then saves you spending money on something with no intrinsic benefit.
Plus, all those budget cameras are designed around AA batteries - so you've that to contend with, rather than recharging.
Also consider the rugged ones from Pentax & Olympus - can't vouch for image quality, one assumes it shouldn't be half bad, but with the potential for bumping and bruising, those would be more capable of withstanding the knocks the sort of activities you've mentioned, are likely to throw at a camera.
Better built, better features, more apt to allow you to develop your creative side away from the Auto setting, and etc, etc.
If you're doing skiing/snow stuff, then I'd say you're almost certainly going to want to look at a bridge camera which will let you screw on ND (neutral density) and CPL (circular polarising lens) filters to counteract the light reflecting off the snow and overloading the sensor.
Then again, if you're not going to be getting all David Bailey, I would say stick with an iPhone's/iPod's camera or Sony Droid one.
It'll do as good a job, and if already owned, then saves you spending money on something with no intrinsic benefit.
Plus, all those budget cameras are designed around AA batteries - so you've that to contend with, rather than recharging.
Also consider the rugged ones from Pentax & Olympus - can't vouch for image quality, one assumes it shouldn't be half bad, but with the potential for bumping and bruising, those would be more capable of withstanding the knocks the sort of activities you've mentioned, are likely to throw at a camera.
Marginally. But now you've got phones with 8+mp sensors, that does make up for a small or crap lens to some extent. A £100 compact is never going to have a good lens in any case. It'll just be an extra thing to carry around, keep charged, keep in memory cards and then the faff of getting the photos off to post on the Internet or whatever.
I'd say the £100 would be a marginal return compared to a decent phone.
I'd say the £100 would be a marginal return compared to a decent phone.
If you get a Canon there is a utility called CHDK which can give you extra features missing from cheaper models. The software sits on the SD card and is loaded when you turn the camera on, so it doesn't invalidate any warranty as it leaves the camera firware alone.
It came about because some clever hackers realised that the processor at the time was the same one used in the DSLRs with a lot of common code in the firmware.
It came about because some clever hackers realised that the processor at the time was the same one used in the DSLRs with a lot of common code in the firmware.
HereBeMonsters said:
DannyScene said:
Fuji have some nice bridge cameras currently
For £130?http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5...
Ok so its £5 more but you get a few extras
I nearly bought the same one to replace my Nikon 995 (BEEEAAAST) but it doesn't have bulb mode so no good for me and my underground adventures
Edited by DannyScene on Monday 17th December 15:34
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