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Scribbled down on July 21st, 2010 by she
Posted in Random Burbling
I’m in need of a new point and shoot camera. Hubs broke mine last year when he was on tour. We bought a replacement camera while on vacation last summer but hubs has taken it with him on his current tour.
While he did leave his fancy schmantzy DSLR camera behind, I don’t have the foggiest idea how to use it. More importantly, I don’t want to be dragging around a backpack filled with lenses, filters, and a bazillion other odds and ends that I don’t know the names of.
What I want is a digital camera that will be smart enough to take a decent picture no matter how poor the photographer’s “eye”. I need a camera that can compensate for my wobbly hands, poor sight, and fits in my pocket or purse.
I don’t want a large body camera with a fixed lense. If I’m going to get something that big then I might as well sign up for a photography course and lug around hubs giant bag o’ camera equipment.
Preferably my new camera will have some sort of facial or smile recognition, a sports feature that would allow me to take pics at football games, a decent zoom (6-10x would be nice) and the ability to film short movies.
So peanut gallery, time to chime in with recommendations (make & model please) so I can start comparing cameras and make a decision. What do you use? What are it’s good points? What’s it’s bad points? What are your favourite features & which features do you wish your camera had?
Thanks.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Hey, I saw your FB post. I recommend *any* Panasonic Lumix camera. I stumbled upon the brand when I feel in love with Leica cameras. Turns out, Panasonic does the digital chips for Leica, so the Lumix cameras are something like mini-Leicas. If you want fantastical amazing pictures, the higher end (more expensive, bigger, heavier, but not DSLR necessarily) Lumix cameras have genuine Leica lenses…which produce very warm pictures (which I love over the robotically sharp clarity of a Canon).
If you want portability, Lumix point-and-shoots have a ton of great features (including intelligent auto w/face recognition). Here is a link to pics taken with my point-and-shoot Lumix. I got it in 2007. These pictures are very spontaneous, many of them through car windows or me holding the camera over my head through the sunroof: http://www.flickr.com/photos/manda_in_sd/sets/72157604039278706/
I’m not all that up on recent Lumix models, so I’m not sure what to recommend specifically. But I’ve enjoyed both that I have had immensely. Good luck!
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:30 am
Thanks for the info & samples. Will definitely add it to the list of cameras to look into and play with before I make my decision. I’ve seen Lumix in the shope where Drew usually gets his camera bits & pieces but never played with one before.
Also, thanks for commenting here instead of on FB. Many years from now when I want to re-read the recommendations yours will be the only one preserved in time 😉