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Regie · 08-27-2004, 03:51 AM

The camera you are looking at sounds good. 3 MP is more than enough , unless you wish to print larger than A4. Nice fast shutter speeds (upto 1/2000 sec), but the shutter can't stay open for too lon, at only 1 second (or max of 2seconds in night shot). It has optical zoom (digital zooms sucks ass). Seems to be able to use AA batteries as well as a proprietary battery pack. The ability to use AAs can come in handy sometimes, especially when travelling and away from a power plug.

The only downside would be the Xd card media being more expensive than standard CF cards, but the price difference aitn that much.
Other brands of cameras you could look at
Canon, Fuji, Pentax and Panasonic (decent lenses and massive optical zoom in some models).

Have a look at a couple of digi photo review sites and perhaps even brwose a few forums.

I always go browse DPreview before deciding on my camera, great site, detailed reviews and very busy forums. Galbraith's forums are excellent (even better than DPreview, IMO)

http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html
http://www.photoxels.com/
http://www.photo.net/
http://www.imaging-resource.com/

http://robgalbraith.com/bins/index.asp (great forums)

08-27-2004, 03:51 AM	#8
Regie Regular User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 186	The camera you are looking at sounds good. 3 MP is more than enough , unless you wish to print larger than A4. Nice fast shutter speeds (upto 1/2000 sec), but the shutter can't stay open for too lon, at only 1 second (or max of 2seconds in night shot). It has optical zoom (digital zooms sucks ass). Seems to be able to use AA batteries as well as a proprietary battery pack. The ability to use AAs can come in handy sometimes, especially when travelling and away from a power plug. The only downside would be the Xd card media being more expensive than standard CF cards, but the price difference aitn that much. Other brands of cameras you could look at Canon, Fuji, Pentax and Panasonic (decent lenses and massive optical zoom in some models). Have a look at a couple of digi photo review sites and perhaps even brwose a few forums. I always go browse DPreview before deciding on my camera, great site, detailed reviews and very busy forums. Galbraith's forums are excellent (even better than DPreview, IMO) http://www.dpreview.com/ http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html http://www.photoxels.com/ http://www.photo.net/ http://www.imaging-resource.com/ http://robgalbraith.com/bins/index.asp (great forums)