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Had some useful tips from Owen and Steven, I went back to look for more cameras.
Taking on board Owen’s comment about Sony memory sticks being proprietary I went and had a look at other models such as Fuji (thanks Steven) and Canon within my price bracket of 140 to 170ish, that utilise SD cards for storage.
I came across an excellent review site called cameras.co.uk. The reviews are very in-depth and even quite exhaustive.
After a bit of reading I finally came across the Canon Powershot A610, it has an excellent review, better even than the Sony DSC-T5 I was originally opting for. For the future I had been planning to try and move more towards an SLR type camera that would be suitable for learning more advanced photographic techniques. Althought the A610 isn’t an SLR it has some more advanced features than a standard compact digital, so it’s a step in the right direction. I liked the fact that it scored well on macro features, I’d like try taking some nature/wildlife/insect photos, ones i’ve seen on Flickr and the like look pretty cool, Mark did a cool macro pic of some biros a while back.
Here’s a quick pic of the camera, for those interested.
It’s been ordered from PixMania, so it should be here in 2-3 days.
Tags: camera, canon, photography
June 13th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Interesting choice.
The Canon A range definitely has the most features for anything like that money, and the fact that it uses SD cards means that you can load it up with cheap memory (1Gb is the biggest card available for my F10). Didn’t think about mentioning the A range because of the size. Far more flexible than either the F10 or the T5.
Have fun with it.
June 13th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
It definitely looks a nice piece of kit, and i’m quite excited about it. 2-3 days is a long time to wait, will just have to throw myself into work and forget about it.