recommend digicam

[919956g]

Hi , guys....i am interested in geetting myself a digicam...
Any body (infact everybody ) having better knopwledge than me , pls give me advice...hehe.

I am cosidering

1)NIKON COOLPIX5700(critics say it gives sharp n rich colours but high power consumpstion.)

2) Sony CYBERshot 707(Carl Zeis lens leh, and low power cosumption)

3)Minolta Dimage 7

Whatcha think guys? Is DIGIcam a gd choice also for WIDE angle photography?

will be waiting anxious ly for ur pposts man

[modenaslim]

Originally Posted by 919956g Hi , guys....i am interested in geetting myself a digicam... Any body (infact everybody ) having better knopwledge than me , pls give me advice...hehe. I am cosidering 1)NIKON COOLPIX5700(critics say it gives sharp n rich colours but high power consumpstion.) 2) Sony CYBERshot 707(Carl Zeis lens leh, and low power cosumption) 3)Minolta Dimage 7 Whatcha think guys? Is DIGIcam a gd choice also for WIDE angle photography? will be waiting anxious ly for ur pposts man

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Since u posting here..
then i would like to recommend you Fuji602z... yeah.. cheap and good.

[kit90210]

Originally Posted by modenaslim __________________________________________________ _ Since u posting here.. then i would like to recommend you Fuji602z... yeah.. cheap and good.

Well, consider the new S5000 la... very affordable... with 10x optical zoom and low power consumption... flash recharges very quickly... read write speed also very fast thanks to the xD card... I'm using one now... very happy with it...

[chriszzz]

Originally Posted by 919956g Hi , guys....i am interested in geetting myself a digicam... Any body (infact everybody ) having better knopwledge than me , pls give me advice...hehe. I am cosidering 1)NIKON COOLPIX5700(critics say it gives sharp n rich colours but high power consumpstion.) 2) Sony CYBERshot 707(Carl Zeis lens leh, and low power cosumption) 3)Minolta Dimage 7 Whatcha think guys? Is DIGIcam a gd choice also for WIDE angle photography? will be waiting anxious ly for ur pposts man

If you are interested in WIDE angle, there are 2 options.
1. Get a camera that has or will support wide angle lens directly, or
2. Get any camera, and use wide angle adaptors

OPTION 1
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Option 1 is expensive, but will yield far better results. If by wide angle you mean 28mm, then you have the following reasonably priced options ( under $2000 )

a. Nikon 5000 ( old, and somewhat obsolete ).
b. Nikon 5400
c. Minolta 7, 7i and 7Hi, and the coming A1.
d. Sony 828 ( soon to be released ).
e. Canon 300D with 18-55mm lens ( effectively 29-88mm )
f. Any other DSLR with super wide lens, but these will costs > $4000 with the wide angle lens ( 17mm or wider ).

If you want even wider, then the DSLR is your only option, but you'll have to spend really big bucks to buy really wide angle lenses.


OPTION 2
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Using wide angle adaptors. These you can add on to almost any digital cameras that has filter threads or has lens adaptors, such as Canon G1/G2/G3/G5, A70/A80, and many other Olympus, Sony and Nikon models.

Adaptors costs from $90 to $300++, and are thus relatively cheap compared to lenses. They come in x0.8 to x0.5 factors. In general, the cheaper and the wider the adaptor, the poorer the quality. A higher priced 0.8 or 0.7 adaptor, such as the very popular WCON series from Olympus, can give good results. But no matter how good they are, they can rarely, if ever, match real wide angle lenses describe in OPTION 1. These adaptors tend to be either soft or blurred at the corners, with chromatic aberrations and purple fringing at the sides and corners being very common.

So you have to choose which is more important to you : Very high image quality, with the corresponding high price ( option 1 ), or lower quality but very affordable ( option 2 ).

Now judging from your list of cameras, you seem to be in the market for a rather high end camera. In that case, you should seriously consider the 300D. It should retail for less than $2000, including the lens. This combo will give you the 29mm relatively wide angle. Now the best part of any DSLR is the low noise, even at high ISO. Compare the photo tests carried out at dpreview, and it is clear that even at ISO800, the DSLR produces less noise than most prosumers at ISO 100 or ISO 200, including all the models you listed above. Imagine the possibilities of hand held shooting in low light or action photography that requires high ISO. This would be quite undoable if you were using a prosumer body due to high image noise. If you have the budget, a DSLR is the way to go.

[919956g]

A million thaks for such precise descriptions.....the info wiill b a great help to me.


Anybody know where all the posted photos in the MEMBERS column have gone. since the page is no longer around

[wcy]

gettin rich eh?

[bigbluesky]

i just got the nikon d70 and was worried that i had wasted money on it. primary reason: need for upgrade, wanna specialise in wide-angle photography..

i feel better now.

[rainman]

seems like ur budget is ard 600-700...
u looking for 2nd hand digicam? Get fuji s602 with 0.5X adapter...It is a very good prosumer cam

[alpie]

I agree if your budget is limited to 500-600 SGD, S602 is probably the best you can get. It's a 3 megapixel camera. Zoom is not so wide, it starts from 35mm.

8MP Minolta Dimage A2 seems to have nice features too.

[majere2sg]

The guy probably got his camera 10 months ago..