Digital Camera

[STR]

Okay my Fuji Digital Camera finally crapped out on me after many years of reliable service.

I want a new one (not necessarily Fuji) and it must be able to have a hook up (cord) to upload pictures to my lap top or main desktop computers.
Must be easy to use without a really complicated format to try to figure out and it would be real nice to have an anti blur type option on it. Can't think of anything else. My normal uses are just for taking pictures of my work to sell or show off so a macro mode would be very nice if not mandatory also.

What do you guys that have already crossed this bridge recommend?

Thanks

STR

 

[Mike Turner]

Well you need to be a little more specific, I use a Canon 30D and 5D markII with all canon L series lens.

This maybe out of your budget, but if you have the money go with the 5D markII it simply is an amazing camera.

Now if you are looking at a point and shoot, I have no experience with them so hopefully someone else will.

Good luck.

 

[T.O.M.]

As mentioned above, you can't go wrong with the quality Canon EOSs.

If your budget is lower, say around 300, you can go for a high-end point-and-shoot, such as the Sony TX7, or maybe a low-end DSLR.

 

[Los Angeles]

Anything Canon. Ten years of insane trial and error talking. I've finally learned my lesson and I won't buy anything else.

No need to buy the 5D unless you'll be shooting nearly every day. If you get an Canon Rebel T2i, you'll have more camera than you'll likely ever need.

I highly recommend this package (note that the image is incorrect. the lens that comes with this package is much longer and more versatile.)

http://www.google.com/products/cata...t=result&resnum=5&ved=0CMEBEPMCMAQ#ps-sellers

 

[Phillip Patton]

I have the Canon SD 4000 IS. It's a point and shoot, has all the features you mentioned, takes HD video, has lot's of other cool features, and is pretty easy to use once you become familiar with it. I think I paid about $350 for mine. The price has probably come down since I bought mine.

It takes very good indoor/low light pics, which was the selling point for me.

 

[sunshadow]

For SLRs after 30 years of professional shooting mixed with 15 years of professional market photography retail I would say Nikon, Canons are OK but Nikon ergonomics are better, they are more durable by far, you can use any nikon lens made since 1968 on even their low end DSLRs if you get a screaming bargain on used lenses since they never changed lens mounts. I use a D200 (digital), 3 Nikon F3s an F4. an F2 and an FM2 (film) Definitely if you are getting a Digital Single Lens Reflex do not get anything other than a Nikon or Canon.

For point and shoot I like the Canon "A" series, I think my pocket camera is an A560 or something like that. I do not like the Nikon point and shoots. The color is good, the lens is good, they lost the way somewhere about 10 years ago, and Canon has been the way to go for pointnshoots ever since. Forget sony and Fuji, their color is kind of exaggerated, minolta is crap, and I wouldn't even consider something made by a company like HP

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[LifeBlade.net]

Appreciate you posing this question STR, as we've been trying to make do with an old Sony DSC-S60 that's beginning to fail more often than not. We'll be watching this thread closely.

Thanks also for all the replies thus far. Always nice to get first hand feedback, especially from fellow makers.

Taylor

 

[STR]

Appreciate you posing this question STR, as we've been trying to make do with an old Sony DSC-S60 that's beginning to fail more often than not. We'll be watching this thread closely.

Thanks also for all the replies thus far. Always nice to get first hand feedback, especially from fellow makers.

Taylor

Thanks. I'll tell ya I really appreciate the input. I've been digging in and researching and doing a lot of reading of reviews trying to find something. So much so that my wife was apparently tired of hearing me fret over it. I've gone back and forth, visited local shops, and heard so many various opinions and pros and cons for so many cameras now that I was starting to see cross eyed!

Then yesterday the mail man came and said to me when he came to the door that we hit the jackpot today because my wife has been shopping again. We had a bunch of packages large and small. Surprised the hell out of me when one of them was a camera she bought for me. She opened it in front of me along with the drapes and everything else she bought. As she did I saw this cute little blue box not much bigger than a deck of cards come out and she hands it to me and says, 'you'll like this trust me'. As I take it I'm asking of course whats this? Turns out she has been doing some research also behind my back and talked with several professional photographers. Anyway, what she got me was a Panasonic DMC-FH20. I know I know, not the Cannon or Nikon and I was leaning toward one of them but could not get anywhere. So I figured what the heck its here.

Turns out I think I can work with it. Its easy to use, took all of five minutes to master and seems to be quite good for battery life. It zooms in better than the one I have been using and using what it calls 'intelligent auto' it figures out whats best for each shot for me being inept as I am at these gadget things. What can I say? It shows what I make up close and well enough to allow someone to see what they are getting. Best of all I didn't have to pay for it! Well, okay maybe I did and perhaps the Nikon or Cannon would have been cheaper we'll have to see.

Anyway, this seems to work well enough to do what I need to me and I'll give it a whirl. If that changes I'll let you know but based on prelim pic taking and experiments to just snap some quick shots seeing whats what I think it is going to be just fine for me. I don't really know the camera all that well yet and can't say I'm unhappy with what it can show so far. I mean it seems to me to show things well enough that if I was going to list it for sale someone can see close up enough to know what they are getting. Time will tell though. Once again I appreciate all your help and advice. Thanks all!

STR

 

[sunshadow]

is there any way you can control what it is focusing on?, it seems to want to focus on the scraggly bark 3 inches behind your subject rather than on the knife/tool itself

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[STR]

I don't know the answer to that. I just took these as first shot experiment photos. If you want to see how well it actually can do simply click my blog link bottom left on my post and there should be a new post showing these same two pry tools for sale there. Click the picture to full size and you then should be able to zoom in with one more click after that and to me they look pretty good for detail so I'm not sure what you are seeing. The knife shot is not as good I do see some slight blur or something thing there but not bad for a first try photo session I guess. Looking at the menu on screen there is a green dot that I guess I'm supposed to keep on the subject being photographed. I may not have done it right. I will have to do more reading once my go juice kicks in here.

STR