Camera Suggestions for a Gift Forums

Biglol

Good sound advice Colin.

The person using the camera should handle it to see if they feel comfortable with it

teemyob

Thanks to everyone who has replied.

I have decided after all to give another small gift for Christmas and to take our daughter out for the day in the new year for her to make her own choice.

I appreciate your responses.

Trev.

geraldandannie · Moderator

geraldandannie · Moderator

bear1

One thing that I NOW consider important (having discovered the poor performance of my current camera- Pentax vario) is shutter lag. I don't recall seeing this quoted in specs but it is important. Too often subjects have moved between pressing the shutter release and the camera waking up and taking the picture!
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EJB

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artona · Moderator

Hi

Bear1 has hit on probably the most important aspect in my opinion. As a pro portrait photographer I use a pro camera but I have recently been thinking about getting a snapper camera for around the home.

If you are not going to be blowing up photos bigger then 10x8 and you are in average light conditions then you only need a few million pixels.

Quite a few years agoI bought a Kodak digitalcamera. It cost £1000 (phew) 1mil pixel and produced pin sharp, good contrast photos but with a shutter lag of a couple of seconds was useless.

stew

Pixelpusher

The more pixels the bigger the print - but - more pixels also gives you the opportunity to crop small areas and still have enough pixels for a decent print.

Colin