I need Digital Camera Advice

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-07-05 04:06am

Okay I am considering spending my tax return on an digital camera.

This one have been recomended to me:

Olympus Camedia 5050

It's pretty expensive here Found it for 8200skr or about $1000

Anyone have ideas about that or other recomendations?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-05 10:10pm

The C-5050 is a very nice camera. I have an older C-3040 and I'm quite pleased with it, the -5050 is better in nearly every respect. I've also played around with it at CompUSA.

Check out http://www.imaging-resource.com and http://www.dpreview.com for some other reviews.

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-07-06 08:10am

As phongn said; those are awesome websites. The 5050 is a good camera, but remember what your requirements are. What kind of photographer are you? If you're a point and shooter or not quite an enthusiast, the 5050 is overkill. Do you want manual controls? A good camera with manual, in my opinion, for a low price is the Cannon A70. What kind of prints will you be printing? Do you actually need 5 million pixels? (etc etc and that kind of question).

Shaka[Zulu] · Post by **Shaka[Zulu]** » 2003-07-07 02:03am

my recomendations are for the Canon S50 or G5... unless you need something even more compact, in which case the A70 will do nicely

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-07-07 03:22am

Ypoknons wrote: As phongn said; those are awesome websites. The 5050 is a good camera, but remember what your requirements are. What kind of photographer are you? If you're a point and shooter or not quite an enthusiast, the 5050 is overkill. Do you want manual controls? A good camera with manual, in my opinion, for a low price is the Cannon A70. What kind of prints will you be printing? Do you actually need 5 million pixels? (etc etc and that kind of question).

I am the Point and shooter, don’t have a clue about manual settings and stuff. Guess that this camera is an overkill. But then it is my brother that recommended it (he’s a photo pro).

Don’t have any color printer at home, I do have some nice laser colors at work but my idea was to bring the data to the photo stores and have them print out the pictures I like. That is really cheap here now, regular sizes pictures for about $0.50 each and full resulutiuons for about $2

I will look into those other cameras you guys recomended.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-07 12:24pm

Faram wrote:I am the Point and shooter, don’t have a clue about manual settings and stuff. Guess that this camera is an overkill. But then it is my brother that recommended it (he’s a photo pro).

The C-5050Z is hideous overkill if you just want to point-and-shoot (hell, my C-3040Z is, for that matter). It supports a lot of fully manual modes (focus, f-stop, shutter speed, even white balancing and more) along with programmed automatic (which is what you'd use). OTOH, it will produce excellent pictures and if you want to learn digital photography it'll take you very far.

If you get more serious, there is a flash hotshoe to put a real flash on and it supports several different storage formats, including CompactFlash (which goes up to over 2GB now), Hitachi/IBM's MicroDrive, SmartMedia (light and small, but not so much storage space) and Olympus's own proprietary format.

I will look into those other cameras you guys recomended.

Do so and check the reviews first on those websites; you might end up saving a lot of money by getting a camera that fits your needs better.