[TriLUG] Digital Cameras

[Ian Meyer]

Just to vouch for Canon, I grew up in a Canon family, my mom had/has
an AS-1, my first camera for real was a AT-1, and there are tons more
in the family.

I got a S200 for my HS graduation in 2003 and it was great, really
easy to use, but lots of options just a couple levels down if you
wanted to, small and sturdy, really a great camera, and I'm sure its
successors are just as finely built.

finally my $0.02
~ian


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:30:04 -0500, Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> Joel Ebel wrote:
> 
> > The S410 and S500 are the best when it comes to compactness.  These
> > cameras are the size of a deck of cards.  And for their size they take
> > excellent pictures.  Aaron Joyner can comment on them, since he's got
> > an S400.
> 
> And boy do I love my S400.  I take it with my everywhere, it is almost
> always on my person (when the Wife hasn't kidnapped it - I need to get
> her one of her own).  I had always heard good things about the Canon
> Digital Elph series (of which the S400 is one example), and I am glad to
> say they live up to the hype.  It's extremely small, takes wonderful 4
> mega pixel pictures, has beautiful color reproduction, and consistently
> makes me happy.  The user interface is very nice and intuitive, the
> battery life is quite reasonable (I've never needed more than 2
> batteries worth of shots on one outing).  My one complaint would be that
> there's no battery life indicator to let you know how long you've got
> left on the battery in the camera - but that's a small and forgivable
> sin.  There is a warning light that comes on right when it's about to
> die.  But when it takes pictures like this, how can you complain?
> http://pics.joyner.ws/album03/IMG_0171
> 
> Taken on my honeymoon, as a quick snapshot, and it looks better than the
> post cards we have from the same location.  I took it from the back of a
> very-briefly-stopped tram.
> 
> > Like I said though, I'm brand loyal.  I like how Canon does things
> > with cameras.  You can also consider Nikon, Sony, or Olympus, though I
> > think they've recently had some trouble keeping up.  Maybe even Fuji,
> > but I'm not a big fan of their technology.  I recommend staying away
> > from most everything else.  Almost everyone I know has purchased a
> > Canon and loves it.
> 
> I to have this brand-loyalty affliction for Canon.  My father has a
> similar problem, but he's attached to Sony.  He loves his Sony camera,
> and opines that the image quality is as good or better, and he prefers
> the features.  His particular camera is significantly larger than my
> Canon, with a 10x zoom and much better feature-accessibility.  My mother
> got a Sony similar to my S400 for Christmas, and it looked quite nice,
> and has a significantly larger LCD (3.5 inches - takes up the entire
> back of the camera).  Unfortunately, I think the LCD will destroy her
> battery life (it uses AAs - which compounds the problem), so her over
> all experience of the camera won't be as nice as my Canon.  But in
> general, the camera certainly takes nice pictures and is serviceable.
> 
> A lot of it comes down to what type of camera you want.  Larger, better
> feature accessibility (the features are there on the smaller cameras,
> they're just harder to take advantage of due to things like having to go
> into a feature menu), better zoom.  Smaller, more portability, less zoom
> and the aforementioned feature-accessibility trade-off.
> 
> Best of luck,
> Aaron S. Joyner
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