Best Cheap Camera..??

[VWPowered]

what something with the few hundred buck range dont mind secondhand but prefer new..??what the best you can get, i liked my pentax but the ol' Kodak DCS520 does take a better picture but dont like the colour red much :)any recommendations

[Richard]

I know a few people who are very happy with their Fuji "bridge" cameras.

[MrRegieRitmo]

I want one of those Panasonic Lumix cameras! Depends what you call cheap though..

[AXrescuer]

Just bought my daughter a Fujifilm Finepix S5800. Seems like a decent little camera and only cost £99.

[Guest]

Seconded on the Panasonic Lumix cameras. They start from about 3 ton, and a professional photographer mate uses them for band snapshots.......

 

EVO seem to rate them as well, and when they're not fapping over Porsche 911s they do seem to incorporate good photos into their publication.

 

I get surprisingly good results from my C902 5 MP camera phone and that GIMP software......

 

 

 

 

 

[Station]

I got a Nikon jobby that was quite expensive new, but you can get it for about 100 quid on ebay now.

It's extremely good quality, it's managed to pick out every grain of sand in the piccie:

 

 

 

It takes a while to autofocus though. Never had a bad photo with it, ever!

 

Just some advice, don't bother with these new massive amoutn of pixel cameras. You will only ever use that amount for big 12 foot high prints. I've only ever used maximum 2048 wide photos and I'm a graphic designer. That many pixels and you have photos that are 30mb each. Get an old Canon or Nikon with 5mp.

[dollywobbler]

I've just bought a Canon Powershot SX10IS for less than £300 on Ebay. Bridge super-zoom thing with 20x zooming power yet it'll also do super macro mode with stuff literally resting against the lens.Still getting used to it, but my previous camera, an S3 IS was also good, even with 'only' 12x zoom. Records video in stereo sound and has a flip-out screen which is AMAZINGLY useful.Only downside to these superzooms is that they're a bit bulky.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My Fuji S6500fd is the best camera I've ever owned, but the secondhand ones on eBay are selling for as much as I paid new. Plus it's really big and uses shit memory cards.

[dollywobbler]

My Fuji S6500fd is the best camera I've ever owned, but the secondhand ones on eBay are selling for as much as I paid new. Plus it's really big and uses shit memory cards.

Good reviews though. Almost went Fuji myself.Another consideration - batteries. For my money, I want AAs please so if my rechargables run out, I can just buy some from a shop and carry on snapping.

[retrogeezer]

Another happy Fuji S5800 owner here - for the money they are fantastic.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good reviews though. Almost went Fuji myself.

The manual zoom adds a lot of bulk, but it's such a dream to use. So much better than motorised zooms. Agree with you about the batteries. Digital stuff is obsolete so quickly, I'd hate to throw out a camera just because no-one sells replacement batteries.

 

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of setting up a darkroom in the garage.

[Milford Cubicle]

Are you really using a Kodak DCS520? I'd expect better photos from such a huge clunky thing, I thought you might be using a mobile phone camera. Must be a bit fooked.

 

I love my Ricoh GX100, it's very small - I had a DSLR for a while and HATED lugging it about, same goes for all the DSLR sized 'bridge' cameras - but has pretty much all the power of a DSLR.

It takes proprietary batteries as well as a pair of AAAs and an SD card so you're never stuck.

Ricoh's engineers, who must be photographers themselves have made it really easy to use - you can set 4 of your usual adjustments (ISO, WB, etc) into the control dial so they are just a click away rather than having to enter a menu system, and shutter speed and aperture are controlled by 2 seperate switches.

Build quality and handling is marvellous, with a rubberised black metal body.

One of joys of it is that you can take proper night shots, with up to 3 minutes exposure. Something missing from most small cameras unfortunately whose main focus is on selling to people who'd never use such a function and are mainly interested in megapixel ratings (who gives a fuck? you're not going to be printing any billboards out of your A4 printer are you?)

 

 

You can pick up a new one from ffordes for £249.99

https://secure.ffordes.com/Shop/Store/I ... 42&promo=0

 

Its 2008 replacement is £400 and doesn't make any real advances.

BEST CAMERA EVAR

[aled]

i also have a fuji finpix s5800 really good camera --well happy

[Pillock]

Yeah i regret getting a 'small' camera rather than a 'good featureset' camera.... got an Olympus 280, it's smaller than my phone but has very little to fiddle with in the manual settings mode.I looked at getting a Canon G5 for £99 from LCE but it had been stripped by the previous owner - no lenses, memory, bag or anything. Needed about the same again spending to make a working setup. But they're great for tinkering, lots of settings and you can hook it into your PC to fire the shutter.

[Spiny Norman]

I think it comes down to personal taste, how intuitive you find its controls, how it fits in your hand that sort of thing. I've heard very good things about the Fuji Finepix range of 'bridge' cameras, but I bought a refurb Nikon D40 for £200 instead, and it's a cracker of a camera. A proper DSLR will have a far better lens usually than a compact and crucially, a much larger CCD, which is ultimately what takes the picture.You can argue about megapixels all day but a sharp lens with a decent sensor will always take better pics than any all-singing all-dancing 12mp compact job. Also these huge files take ages to on a photo editing programme.If it were me, I'd hunt around for a NOS or secondhand Nikon D40/D50, Canon EOS 350 etc.

[VWPowered]

watanabe wow those pics are great as is yours Milford Cubicle

 

i'll have about 200 euros to spend, i guess the kodak now is a 10 year old camera, in its time the best of the bunch maybe i just need to play with it more, but its not subtle

 

but saying that i get it out at car shows and no-one gets in the way does look very professional but weights a bloody ton...

 

my old pentax was only a hundred notes so wondered whether one abit more expensive would be a good idea

 

as when it was new the pics were great

 

 

but builders dust from work didnt do it any favours

[Richard]

Ricoh can't be a good make, I've never heard of them Whatever camera you consider I would suggest searching for it on Flickr, that will give you an idea of the results you can expect. I did that AFTER I had bought a Fuji Z20fd for my wife's birthday.

[VWPowered]

ahh good idea that

[Spottedlaurel]

Interesting and timely thread, I’m looking to get a compact before our hol’s, as the DSLR is a tad cumbersome for that kind of thing (and I’ve killed all our previous compacts). One that’s jumped out at me is a Panasonic Lumix DMCLZ10.Amazon have them for £99, which seems a decent deal. Has some ability to change to manual control, uses AA batteries, 5x optical zoom and its Leica lens starts at 30mm, so reasonably wide angle which is good for shows and car park shots.Any thoughts?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I love my Ricoh GX100 .... One of joys of it is that you can take proper night shots, with up to 3 minutes exposure.

I love long exposures, but the Fuji's limited to 30 seconds. Three minutes would be fantastic!

Whatever camera you consider I would suggest searching for it on Flickr, that will give you an idea of the results you can expect.

On the subject of long exposures, when I searched my old Nikon Coolpix, it turned up a photo of a man in a dress with his cock hanging out. http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

[VWPowered]

family safe then 100 euros would be great would like something with a good zoom without losing picture quality

[Spottedlaurel]

Some old rubbish people have been taking on the Panasonic I'm considering...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like it should do the job then.

[VWPowered]

yep.. just been offered a olympus D-535 is that naff or good..

[michiel]

Work asked me to buy a new camera, I bought them a Nikon Coolpix L20 which is a bit small, took these pics on the first day in automode, none since... other than my own Canon Dunnothenamecuzit'sfiveyearsold I have no experience, so no helpful tips.

 

 

 

[Milford Cubicle]

yep.. just been offered a olympus D-535 is that naff or good..

Judging from the spec, pretty naff. It was an entry level camera in 2005, so is going to be outmoded now.If you're just after a point+shoot effort, you won't go far wrong with the Fujis and Panasonics suggested so far. The more modern Olympus cameras are good too, but take XD cards (along with all but the most recent Fujis) which are quite pricey compared with the more common SD cards.

[AXrescuer]

The great thing about the Finepix S5800 is that it can use both XD and SD memory cards!

[VWPowered]

ohh that S5800 looks a proper piece of kit

 

do they use compact flash cards as i have 2 of those both 2gb

 

 

or those tiny cards... soz dont know anything about camera's hence the questions all the time

 

 

[Milford Cubicle]

Some of the more high-spec Fuji mega zoom cameras take CF cards (S9600 for example), but otherwise they are mainly limited to DSLR applications.SD cards are used by most compact cameras.

[Betaphile]

I think it comes down to personal taste, how intuitive you find its controls, how it fits in your hand that sort of thing. I've heard very good things about the Fuji Finepix range of 'bridge' cameras, but I bought a refurb Nikon D40 for £200 instead, and it's a cracker of a camera. A proper DSLR will have a far better lens usually than a compact and crucially, a much larger CCD, which is ultimately what takes the picture.You can argue about megapixels all day but a sharp lens with a decent sensor will always take better pics than any all-singing all-dancing 12mp compact job. Also these huge files take ages to on a photo editing programme.If it were me, I'd hunt around for a NOS or secondhand Nikon D40/D50, Canon EOS 350 etc.

I agree with this. Personally I started with Nikon so have stuck with them for lens compatibility etc, my job requires me to take publication-quality shots on a regular basis and I use a D50 for that. Something like a D40/D50 is not the most compact thing in the world, agreed, but on the other hand the difference sizewize compared to a compact is not that massive and it's a quality, durable piece of kit.

[Minimad5]

As i am poor an dont yet have a camera

 

Anyone in the Birkenhead / Wirral area able to lend me a camera for the day ?

As im attending Audi in the park this sunday (9th)

 

Help a fellow Shite-er out ?

 

 

LINK > http://www.audisinthepark.co.uk/