I'm going to buy a digital camera today

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:05 pm

And it probably will be this one:
http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/29_mj ... IGITAL.htm#

:):)

Thing is, there are other cameras in that price range that are slightly better (3x optical zoom instead of 2x, optical viewfinder instead of just the lcd screen), but this one looks so nice!

Not sure about the colour yet.

Anyone has experience with this one?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:11 pm

Yay!

Digital cams are a lot of fun - I cant give you any advice (or experience) though.

Good luck with it

Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:37 am

I thought you had 1 alrady. oh well anywho looks good.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:07 am

Ha! I got one, but it's another one.

http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/29_mj ... AL_500.htm

Had to decide between very good looks, or one with better performance. Wasn't too hard in the end.

It works fine so far.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:32 am

I guess your lookiing between function and style?

Ie the one your pickig here is stylish but u might find more value for money with say...

http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/29_SP ... raZoom.htm

ie. an SLR style camera with a proper lens.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:57 pm

Yeah, but that one is 150% more expensive.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:09 pm

yeah that one is expensive - I was thinking perhaps a Fuji SLR would be good value for money.

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/digital/cameras/s5600/

Think its about £250 - not sure what your budget was, but I can recomend that camera alot, its very good value for what it does. its sort of like the bottom of the pro range - but to be honest the pro range offers very little for the amature.
Its nice u can stick different lense's on these camera, good zoom, good macro, light balances, multi shot. fast auto focus. nice design.

just an idea.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:03 pm

Looks nice!

I was not really looking for a professional camera, just for holiday pics and other occasions. 250 pounds is a bit more than I was prepared to spend. Plus all those lenses don't fit into my handbag.

My budget was around €200-€250 but I ended up spending a bit more (€300) to get one that had better specs.

And you always have to buy the extra memory card and maybe an extra accu, so that has to be added to the overall cost.

I still have my 10-year old camera which has only a flash button, and manual rewind etc.
Maybe if it turns out that I use this new one all the time, I will upgrade to a more expensive one.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:12 pm

Looks nice

I prefer the smaller "not so pro" cameras. They are easy to carry, etc

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:34 pm

It works quite well too

But I haven't tried to download the pictures to my computer yet.

For me, a pro camera is unnecessary.

But some of the non-pro cameras were so small that you could not even comfortably hold them in your hands!

And I have small hands.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:40 pm

Eline wrote:But some of the non-pro cameras were so small that you could not even comfortably hold them in your hands! And I have small hands.

I had a problem with one camera that was so light it was impossible to hold it steady enough to take a picture....not good.