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Wife has a Canon PowerShot A550. Bough online a year or so ago. Great thing, no issues, good pics, decent software for PC, takes video too. Ł100. It does everything we want from a camera. So easy even we can use it.
Check out the Canon S90. This is a top camera with wide aperture settings for no flash low light situations and a host of other features most of which are useful and not silly trimmings which never get used. I've had some stunning results from this camera and for a "point & shoot" camera this could be for you.
I would go for a camera in the Panasonic Lumix range. They have excellent Leica lenses and in my experience take sharp pictures with good colour balance. Go for max optical zoom in your price range and forget about digital zoom.
Try the John Lewis website, they seem to be competitive and have an excellent selection in the Lumix compact range.
Suggest you handle the camera before buying as some of the compacts are really quite small and fiddly and not easy to operate if you have large hands.
Another vote for Panasonic Lumix from me too. They consistently receive good reviews in the press. Bought my wife a TZ6 model with 12X zoom. Take it in preference to my DSLR when out walking or cycling as its much more compact and the pic's are just about as good in the right conditions.
Trevor
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My wife and I both have a Casio Exilim Z60 that go everywhere with us. Mine is strapped in a belt holder and my wifes is always in the phone pouch of her bag. No point having any camera if it's always at home in the drawer cos it's just too big to lug around.
The Casio range have several benefits. Mainly 'bang for the buck' and features included if you have time to read the manual.
They all slot into a docking station connected via USB to the PC. This allows charging the internal battery and the transfer of pictures as and when you choose.
Our new one was stolen 4 years ago much to my annoyance. So now we have second hand ones at about fifty squids that won't be too tragic if anything happens to it.
The one weak part of all these small compact digital cameras is the extending lens mechanism. If this gets tapped the camera is history.
Ray.
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Have fun, if you want to see some images from mine, happy to send them.
AJ
Well with my Canon Ixus plug being supported, here are a couple of pics taken with my ageing 7Mp Ixus, both from the same spot in roughly the same direction. And if you exit from that and look at other pics stored, virtually all are with the same Ixus shirt-pocket camera:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/DABurleigh/Algarve#slideshow/5 487851941125874066
Check out the Canon S90. This is a top camera with wide aperture settings for no flash low light situations and a host of other features most of which are useful and not silly trimmings which never get used. I've had some stunning results from this camera and for a "point & shoot" camera this could be for you.
Cheers
David
I have a Canon S90, and quite frankly, the photos straight from the camera are excellent. I was/am considering dumping my DSLR but I'm not quite at that stage yet.
It has some issues, because it really is very small, as to how to hold it, ie its easy to put your finger over flash, wich is awkward when it wants to pop up automatically , and unless its set up properly, its very easy to wind the film speed up to where you don't want it.
But I'm over that now, and whilst I bought it as a pocket camera so that I always have a camera with me, I can't remember the last time I took the DSLR out
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, and unless its set up properly, its very easy to wind the film speed up to where you don't want it.
