Buying new digital cam- need advice

[One_Divided]

So my Olympus 4000c went in for the 4th repair and now futureshop is crediting me a new camera of equal value. The Olympus was $800 3 years ago. That should leave me with about $400 credit. So here's what I am thinking.. I will spend anywhere from $500-$800 and I want a camera that can do at least 800 ISO and work fully manually. I'll be using it for some tank photography, lots of live band photography and various other stuff... Anyone here have any advice on what company to go for? I will never ever use Olympus again in my life.


thanks,


-Adam

[Invigor]

nikon :D

konica minota is good too. for $500-800 i'm sure you can find a decent lower end SLR camera somewhere..I was thinking a nikon d50, but they're msrp is $899 :|

if you like a nice camera, a little on the bulky side, canon powershot "S2 IS" is very flexible, downside is it doesn't do iso800. :(

might want to save up maybe for a nice SLR, either nikon d50 or canon rebel xt..I believe you'll never regret buying an SLR if you do!

[Tarolisol]

I always liked canon.

[Manny]

i have a conon power shot A75, it is OK but it does not do really close ups very well or i have not figured it out yet. i would go to a camera shop and talk to an expert. maybe they would have somer that you could try out. i know that there is a camera store on fort street right beside the eatons centre.

[One_Divided]

SLR seem to be the higher end manual ones? What does slr stand for?

here's what they have at FS:

link (http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/subclass.asp?catid=22553&mfr=&logon=&langid=EN&MSCSProfile=3C79F0C7EA3162B2749BCCA9199FD9D1AECFE8 F52E82BB2E14E8844175FFCAF2455E2D66198AA23EA91CFBF3 61C2A088270F857003280ADBDE2994DB8290DEF6E60A33C277 B4C17BC9A1FFE524AD89F7EDD44F0375598A3CF4BCEDB1D457 D41B414526183B85D1A126364183DF10E1A2B8553723A25944 6E&list=&page=0&sort=1&test%5Fcookie=1)

I could maybe afford the Pentax...


Adam: I edited your link to show as a little smaller, it's still the same link but this way it's not throwing off the horizontal scroll. -Tony

[Tarolisol]

SLR stand for Single lens reflex or somthing like that, that is the kind of camera im looking at getting right now, but i really like photography. It can be used like any other Digital camera but it has changeable lenses for different situations. can be akward for someone not looking for that route of photography.

[StirCrazy]

Adam, I would look hard at Fuji they make some nice stuff, as for SLR, unless you want to be able to buy lenses and spend another fortune and have a camera case like a suitcase stay away from them. My Fuji is one step below the SLR.

you want something in the 5mp and over range and you want a good macro feature and ability to use filters. I think the Fuji S5200 would be a good choice

http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS5200Overview.jsp?item=I836806&dbid=836806&urltype=overview&NavBarId=I836806

or the S9000, if you can find it on sale or at a low enuf price for your budget

http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS9000Overview.jsp?item=I836805&dbid=836805&urltype=overview&NavBarId=I836805

Steve

[Delphinus]

SLR stand for Single lens reflex or somthing like that, [...] It can be used like any other Digital camera but it has changeable lenses for different situations. [...]

Sort of. For practical purposes this is "correct enough" these days, but if you "really" want to get all geeky, SLR meaning single-lens-reflex refers only to the fact that the lens is used both for capturing the image as well as the viewfinder (as opposed to having a secondary optic for the viewfinder), and doesn't really refer to the lenses being modular and exchangeable. Although people seem to use the term to refer to that style of camera these days. But there you have it, a little piece of trivia you can use to impress your friends with. :biggrin:

[Jason McK]

If you are defiantly looking at SLRs I would stay away from Pentax. But you are going to spend more that $800.00. Do you have to use the Credit at Future Shop, If so you are kinda stuck with what they sell. But if not..
I would look at Canon 20D or Nikon D70 or 70s. Nikon just released a new SLR called the 200D you may want to hold off a month or so to see the realignment of prices for the D70. Also if you can wait maybe Boxing Day would be a good day to spend your credit.
If $800.00 is you max and SLR isn't that important I would look at
Canon Powershot A620
or the
Sony DSC-R1

Jason

[Tarolisol]

If you are defiantly looking at SLRs I would stay away from Pentax. But you are going to spend more that $800.00. Do you have to use the Credit at Future Shop, If so you are kinda stuck with what they sell. But if not..
I would look at Canon 20D or Nikon D70 or 70s. Nikon just released a new SLR called the 200D you may want to hold off a month or so to see the realignment of prices for the D70. Also if you can wait maybe Boxing Day would be a good day to spend your credit.
If $800.00 is you max and SLR isn't that important I would look at
Canon Powershot A620
or the
Sony DSC-R1

Jason


Im pretty sure those cameras are going to be way out of his/her price range. both those cost around 1500.

[Jason McK]

Im pretty sure those cameras are going to be way out of his/her price range. both those cost around 1500.


Yes you are correct. Good SLRs are in the $1500.00 range

J

[One_Divided]

Hey guys, so future shop credited me $550 towards a new camera so I went for the closest thing to an SLR without the lense hassles. I got the Fuji S9000... Thanks everyone for the help! This thing is damn sweet!!!!!


http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS9000Overview.jsp?item=I836805&dbid=836805&urltype=overview&NavBarId=I836805

-Adam

[StirCrazy]

Hey guys, so future shop credited me $550 towards a new camera so I went for the closest thing to an SLR without the lense hassles. I got the Fuji S9000... Thanks everyone for the help! This thing is damn sweet!!!!!


http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS9000Overview.jsp?item=I836805&dbid=836805&urltype=overview&NavBarId=I836805

-Adam

are you going to let me play with it :mrgreen:

Steve

[Jason McK]

Very Nice. Fuji does some really cool things with their Super CCD that no one else does in the industry. I have an older model S600Zoom. Great for Aquarium pics.

I'm sure you will love it. And we will be expecting pics very soon :)


J

[StirCrazy]

Very Nice. Fuji does some really cool things with their Super CCD that no one else does in the industry. I have an older model S600Zoom. Great for Aquarium pics.

I'm sure you will love it. And we will be expecting pics very soon :)


J

S600z? I never saw this one I have the S602z which was the model right under the S2 SLR what was the S600 like?

Steve

[Jason McK]

S600z? I never saw this one I have the S602z which was the model right under the S2 SLR what was the S600 like?

Steve
Steve your right I have the S602z. I had to go look at it.

Have you had problems with an over powered Flash, and the no IR focus in low light drives me crazy. But it's an amazing camera for shooting me tank :)

J

[StirCrazy]

S600z? I never saw this one I have the S602z which was the model right under the S2 SLR what was the S600 like?

Steve
Steve your right I have the S602z. I had to go look at it.

Have you had problems with an over powered Flash, and the no IR focus in low light drives me crazy. But it's an amazing camera for shooting me tank :)

J

um no, I found the flash underpowered and went out and bought a old vivatar flash that I run off the hot shoe. ya the IR focus is a pain but for dark pics I generaly use a small mag light to manualy set my focus .. it works hehe..

Steve