Advice on a new camera please...

[kingnathski88]

Hi,

I recently had to send back a 6MP Mustek camera as it was faulty to a company called Park Family Hampers, to be honest there customer service left a lot to be desired.

Anyway the point is i'm due to go to Canada in just short of 6weeks, and have decided to buy another digital camera.

My limit is £200, and the camera will have do be able to do the following;

1. Ideally like one that can take either 1gb or 2gb sd card
2. Take really good photos (obvious i know)
3. Movie capture fro when i am skiing, and other movie clips in general
4. 2.0 LCD screen least
5. Also a fairly stylish one

The possibility to zoom also for like long distance pictures on the slope would also be great and partly essential, but not sure if i need lots of digital or optical zoom?

So all-in-all i would like a camera that tales great photos and can do really good video, i have found some cameras here, any advice appreciated, especially from Quad

Acer CI-6330 - £89.99 from ebuyer
6.2MP
Video JPG (AVI)
3x optical
4x digital

Canon PowerShot A620 7.4mp - £211.13 also from ebuyer

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200 Digital Camera [7MP, 3x Optical Zoom] from amazon

 

[ChristopherP]

Nikon Coolpix 5600?

 

[Quadophile]

Whichever you like, any one of them is good for you

Nikon

Canon

 

[kingnathski88]

Thanks, i laos found this from argos, think it looks really good?

 

[Quadophile]

I would buy from camera specialist, Nikon and and Canon are established since generations.

 

[kingnathski88]

will do, but just wandered that if this camera was ok, or are samsung not good?

 

[Quadophile]

When you buy a camera you not only buy the unit but, software to handle it, reliability of the manufacturer, support, after sales service etc etc. I am not saying that the particular model of Samsung is bad but surely they need a lot of time to establish themselves in the business of Digital Cameras. If you buy from Nikon or Canon there is hardly much to worry about.

Track record is an important consideration. This is my opinion which you asked for. I hope you get the idea.

 

[Anon_F]

go digi

Jessops seem to sell good cameras, but you could find a decent one and buy on-line?

However up until recently i was still using a trusty Olympus OM10

 

[kingnathski88]

thanks all for advice, my dad agreed to buy me the samsuung from argos, as he also gets some reward points fro there, and as i didnt have to pay anything i was like fine.

It goingok, just wandered if you can help me with some size options?

3072x2304
2816x2112
2592x1944
2272x1704
2048x1536
1600x1200
1024x768
640x480

I just wadered what they mean, is it like how clear the image is?

 

[Me__2001]

the sizes represent the number of pixels in each direction

the more pixels the bigger you can print the picture without pixelation (blocky/blurry images)

 

[Quadophile]

It goingok, just wandered if you can help me with some size options?

3072x2304
2816x2112
2592x1944
2272x1704
2048x1536
1600x1200
1024x768
640x480

I just wadered what they mean, is it like how clear the image is?

Congratulations on your new camera!

As for the size options Me_2001 has already stated that these figures represent the pixel count which is correct. On the other hand it also means at what resolution you take pictures from your camera. The calculation for your information is as follows:

3072x2304 = 7 Mega Pixels
640x480 = 0.3 Mega Pixels

In between you can calculate to arrive at different MP resolutions.

When printing the highest resolution will yield the best results. If you do not wish to print all the time you can use lower resolution and that would mean you can accomodate more pictures on the memory card as the file size is smaller with each step downwards in terms of resolution.

If you need any further clarifications please do not hesitate to ask.

Happy Shooting!

 

[kingnathski88]

thanks, will let you know how i get on

 

[Anon_F]

size matters

I find it's not the size that matters, but what you do with it, he he

 

[kingnathski88]

Well mainly storing them for reference, but the odd print here and there

 

[kingnathski88]

Ok, i have taken some pictures, some of which come out as 3mb!


Any programs or software where i can make the file size smaller without loss of quality

 

[ChristopherP]

just upload them to a server and link us.

 

[V_R]

Ok, i have taken some pictures, some of which come out as 3mb!
Any programs or software where i can make the file size smaller without loss of quality

The file size is big because of the quality of the image.... thats basically the way it works.

Irfanview will resize but will loose a little bit of quality, but it wont be that noticeable unless you plan on zooming in and cropping it.

 

[kingnathski88]

Maybe to put on websites etc... but dont want them to take ages to load