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We have had a rash of electronics deaths in our household, one of which being my Fuji Finepix 2800Zoom digital camera. This camera has lasted for over 6 years, and I have loved it. It takes good quality pictures, 60 second movies, and has given me no trouble. I believe one of my 5 lovely children got their hands on it, unfortunately. (Or could it have been when I dropped it the other day? We'll just blame it on the kids....) So now I am in the market for a new digital camera unless someone out there can tell me how to fix it. I have scoured the internet looking for repair helps to no avail.
Here's what I want:
- 10 megapixel or greater (for picture quality)
- at least 3X optical zoom (optical zoom is real zoom--lens-driven; digital zoom merely enlarges a portion of the image)
- a slim body that will fit easily in my purse
- a price around $100
When I purchased my Fuji Finepix 6 1/2 years ago, I paid over $300 for 2 megapixels and 6x optical zoom. Technology improves so quickly that I can easily find a camera with the features I listed for $100. The challenge remains to find the highest quality camera for that price.
I'll let you know what I find!
You obviously don't know me, I'm Liz's sister-in-law, and a pretty huge fan of all things bargain :-) . . . for what it's worth, I have been beyond impressed with all of the Canon cameras we've had (PowerShots). . . as far as a point and shoot camera goes, I swear they're the best. Although, I have always had the slightly bulkier bodied ones, I'm not as familiar with their slimmer ones, but I assume they're rated just as well! My only issue is the flash is too overwhelming at times, but I think you probably get that with most point and shoot cameras. I've also found on a lot of rating sites (like cnet.com) that unless you're planning on blowing pictures up REALLY big, a better quality camera with 8MP will get you better results than some of the 12MP cameras.
ReplyDeleteWe have also gotten all of our cameras and our video camera at http://butterflyphoto.com/ . . . they've beat every price we've found anywhere else. Good luck!
I tend to agree with Hilary about MPs. Once you get much above 7 or 8 MPs the limiting agent in photo quality is going to be the camera lens not the number of MPs.
ReplyDeleteWe also have a Canon and have been pleased with the results.