What camera

[Spiezels]

Right, am goin travelling to vietnam, cambodia and thialand at end of May for 2 months.

One lad is taking a mint camera fairly old (not digi) but its got big zoom etc.

wat i want is a good quality digital cam, fairly good zoom but also small as poss, because dont wanna be lugging round a f**k off camera lol.

any idea ppl, wat do you have, how much etc etc

 

[Munday]

Re: Wat camera

I have a Canon Ixus 900Ti, 10MP and awesome features. Takes a really good picture and have no complaints so far.
Can get it for less than £260 now

 

[JJ!]

Re: Wat camera

Canon Ixus 60, only got 4 times zoom but you wont find much smaller!!! Then get a Crumpler pp40 mk II case!!!!

 

[Spiezels]

Re: Wat camera

wats tht JJ, umm how much.

dont really wanna spend much more than £200 munday. cheers. guys

 

[JJ!]

Re: Wat camera

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000EP9AJ8/?tag=cliospnet01-21

cheaper here:

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/516268/art/canon/digital-ixus-60.html

they give it a perfect 10

Its about the size of a pack of 20 cigarettes.

Reviews here:

The SD600 is what its called in Japan/US etc

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_reviews/sd600.html

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h998.htm

I have a 2gig Sandisk Ultra II card in mine which is good for 700 shots.

 

[unofficialPete]

Re: Wat camera

Canon A710 IS, 6x Optical Zoom with Image Stabiliser..

Around £180 but you'll need to spend 20odd£ on memory, then £10-30 on rechargeable Batteries and charger (try eBay)..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000IKRWJ4/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[oska]

Re: Wat camera

Again Canon Ixus or Pentax Optio are probably the smallest and the ones I'd go for. I still have an Optio S4i (4MP) which still does a cracking job.

 

[dick]

Re: Wat camera

fz7?
canon g7?

 

[unofficialPete]

Re: Wat camera

fz7?
canon g7?

FZ7 would be good but the G7 well out of his budget...
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfz7/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EN5P26/interactiveda85-21

 

[Spiezels]

cheers fellas, will do some research

 

[Clart]

i'm currently looking at

Canon SD630 (ixus 64)
Sony N1
Casio Z1000

 

[UncleGrumpy]

Im still using an old Digital IXUS v for general snapping, might only be 2.1mp but it takes amazing quality pictures for its size, im guessing the newer ones are mind blowing - the 900Ti is total sex piss for a compact according to dpreview. If I wasn't totally addicted to DSLR's i'd probably have bought one

 

[JJ!]

i'm currently looking at

Canon SD630 (ixus 64)
Sony N1
Casio Z1000

Ixus 64??? Do you mean 65???

If so, great choice!

 

[JoelDee]

i'm currently looking at

Canon SD630 (ixus 64)
Sony N1
Casio Z1000

Trouble is Sony dont let you put other cards in them you can only put sony cards in them and they charge top wack for them

 

[JoelDee]

I bought a cannon ixus 60 on saturday love it, ordered a 2gb card off play.com so just waiting for that to arrive as i;ve only got shitty 16mb one in at the mo. Very nice camera small as f**k and pic quality is awesome cant beat it really for the money!

 

[Spiezels]

got a link to where u got it etc joel. cheers. looking at an slr type cam now but with digital screen etc.

around £200 really needs to be ok with being used outside alot due to travelling

 

[Rob_]

got a link to where u got it etc joel. cheers. looking at an slr type cam now but with digital screen etc.

around £200 really needs to be ok with being used outside alot due to travelling

Its £150 from here

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/516268/art/canon/digital-ixus-60.html

 

[Spiezels]

right, all my family know i want a camera now lol.

sooo will have about £300-350 for a camera, really want a digital SLR type thing so good zoom and mint for shots, would quiet like to get into it and am doing a media production course next yr at uni so all ties in lol.

anyway now i have a price range wat can u all suggest (again) need something thats ok to be used outdoors etc and will be carried around the far east.

cheeeersss.

(am doing lots of research but u guys seem like pro's.)

 

[unofficialPete]

For your budget and needs I'd go for an SLR-alike/bridge camera, compact with a nice big zoom.

Check out cameras like the Canon S3 IS or Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50

 

[Spiezels]

For your budget and needs I'd go for an SLR-alike/bridge camera, compact with a nice big zoom.

Check out cameras like the Canon S3 IS or Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50

yeah cheers bud, been looking at the s3 seems pretty good. at around £250