Comments on: A tale of two cameras

By: midlife mommy

midlife mommy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:56:57 +0000

What kind of camera would you recommend for an idiot like me? I know NOTHING about cameras and have little patience for thick instruction books. I am not an artist, though I do like to think that I am once in awhile with some artsy photos that I try to take that never seem to come out nearly as good as I thought they would. I have an Olympus that is several years old. It has 2.1 megapixels or something like that; I would like to get something with more pixel density. I don’t like the delay (in snapping the pictures or writing them to disk); I miss a lot of things that way, and virtually never get any action shots. There is some blur in the ones that I do manage to get. I like being able to zoom, but I really don’t know the difference between digital zooming and the other zooming (can’t recall the name right now, but I think one is better than the other for the number of pixels). Any advice is welcomed, since, unlike me, you sound like you actually know something!

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:31:02 +0000

Heh heh.

I’ve been using a very old (circa 2002) Fuji Finepix for my TDT stuff, since it was all I had. But Mom got me a Nikon Coolpix 50 for Christmas. Fantastic, especially for the hobbyist. Plus — Amazon had it for 60% off.

Digital cameras are so hit or miss…

By: A.M.

A.M. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:13:46 +0000

Ooo. Thanks for the review – I’ve been looking nonseriously for a replacement for my 5 year old exilim and hoping to find something adorable with optical zoom.

By: jodi

jodi — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:53:00 +0000

I have an older version of the power shot and really like it.

I have to actually remember to take it places.