Two digital camera reviews

[WildBill]

Russell - Congratulations on your newly minted degree.
And thanks for your camera review. I am surprised, as Nikon usually makes good products.

[Kalrog]

I'll put out my brief plug for this camera review site: http://www.dpreview.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

GREAT site - maybe too much information there unless you know what you are reading. And I do some professional photography as a side business - so if you need prints or advice I can help. Or even if you just need me to explain what all those numbers mean, I can do that as well (mostly). Although I do use a dSLR now and wouldn't want to go back to a P&S camera, they can take good pictures as well.

[A-R]

Russell - Congratulations on your newly minted degree.
And thanks for your camera review. I am surprised, as Nikon usually makes good products.

I am a die-hard Nikon man - semi-pro for about 4 years - and own 6 Nikon cameras (3 DSLRs, 3 film SLRs) and even I am highly disappointed in Nikon's offerings in the point-n-shoot category of digital cameras. Canon blows Nikon away in P-n-S digicams - in addition to my big, heavy professional Nikon DSLRs we also own 2 Canon P-n-S cameras.

For those who don't know photography or cameras, a "Nikon man" admitting that a Canon product is worthwhile is like a Chevy man saying something nice about Ford, a Coke drinker praising Pepsi, a Bud drinker praising Miller, a 1911 fanatic praising a Glock, etc.

[nitrogen]

Russell - Congratulations on your newly minted degree.
And thanks for your camera review. I am surprised, as Nikon usually makes good products.

I am a die-hard Nikon man - semi-pro for about 4 years - and own 6 Nikon cameras (3 DSLRs, 3 film SLRs) and even I am highly disappointed in Nikon's offerings in the point-n-shoot category of digital cameras. Canon blows Nikon away in P-n-S digicams - in addition to my big, heavy professional Nikon DSLRs we also own 2 Canon P-n-S cameras.

For those who don't know photography or cameras, a "Nikon man" admitting that a Canon product is worthwhile is like a Chevy man saying something nice about Ford, a Coke drinker praising Pepsi, a Bud drinker praising Miller, a 1911 fanatic praising a Glock, etc.

I have to agree about Nikon's point and shoot cameras. You know who has shown the most improvement in point and shoot lately? Sony!

Back in 2001, I bought a cybershot and hated it. There was so much red channel noise in it, it was almost unusable. I tried again this year, and their camera is sooo much better!

[The Annoyed Man]

My first "real" digital camera was a Nikon - a Coolpix 800, I think. What I remember most about it was that it crapped out on me in France, 1 week into a 3 week vacation, in the middle of a day spent touring the oldest Romanesque churches in the Charentes region. I can't think of a worst possible time for it to happen. The CCD chip blew out. I had to drop about $400 unplanned dollars (high because of the Euro/$$ exchange rate) for a Minolta - which is what the nearest store that sold digital cameras carried - so that I could get pictures of the rest of the trip. I was not impressed.

Today, I use a nice little Canon. Takes great pics.

[TexasComputerDude]

My first "real" digital camera was a Nikon - a Coolpix 800, I think. What I remember most about it was that it crapped out on me in France, 1 week into a 3 week vacation, in the middle of a day spent touring the oldest Romanesque churches in the Charentes region. I can't think of a worst possible time for it to happen. The CCD chip blew out. I had to drop about $400 unplanned dollars (high because of the Euro/$$ exchange rate) for a Minolta - which is what the nearest store that sold digital cameras carried - so that I could get pictures of the rest of the trip. I was not impressed.

Today, I use a nice little Canon. Takes great pics.

they don't sell disposable camera's overseas? I would have just bought one and used my handy dandy scanner when I got home lol.

[flintknapper]

I've been very pleased with my Canon S5IS.

[boomerang]

they don't sell disposable camera's overseas? I would have just bought one and used my handy dandy scanner when I got home lol.

The optics in a $5 single use camera are not great. Having said that, for a few bucks, Target (and other places) will burn a CD with the digital images when they develop the film. Fine for family snapshots.

[The Annoyed Man]

they don't sell disposable camera's overseas? I would have just bought one and used my handy dandy scanner when I got home lol.

They do, but the quality of the disposables' image isn't nearly as good, and then scanning them removes the image one generation from the source. And I took HUNDREDS more pictures, not just 24 or 36 more. I considered it, but rejected it partly for the image quality reason, and partly because I figured that the total cost of purchasing multiple throwaway cameras and getting the film processed and printed would be a big chunk of the price of a new digital camera, and I was going to need a new digital anyway. That Minolta served me well for several years afterward. I eventually gave it to my son.

[TexasComputerDude]

lol i've just always been really picky about what i buy, my last laptop took me 2 months to make a decision lol.