What digital camera?

[profx]

I am starting to think seriously about getting a digital camera
Therse are the things i would like it to have
huge optical zoom
3.5 mega pixel or better
good battery life
full control over shutter speed and focus... basically a prosumer camera

What camera do you recommend? what do you advise me stay well clear of?

One that has caught my attention is the Minolta Dimage 7 -
5.24Mp 7x Optical zoom 2x digital zoom for $619,
but from what i have read it eats through batterys like hell

what camera do you have and do you recommend it?

[joeth]

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...&postid=126181

Go here..... It'll be explained.....

[Javintosh]

I'm also thinking about a digital camera. I'm a little torn because new cameras using that X3 technology (which is CMOS-based and aparently given color quality comparable to 35mm film) are just starting to come out.

The first camera out with the technology cosst 3K, but this is supposed to eventually lead to much cheaper digital cameras.

Personally I'd hate to spend $700 only to have this technology drop in price shortly thereafter.

http://www.foveon.com/X3_tech.html

Aside from that, I'd also narrow the field down to amera's that use Compact Flash. If you look in pricewatch, you're going to notice that other memory formats don't have the capacity and are much more expenside per MB.

Also, you can get a FireWire reader for Compact Flash which should make transfering large number of files better than USB.

[genghiscohen]

A decent "temporary" camera to use while waiting for an affordable X3 is the Olympus Camedia D-510. For under $300, you get 2.1 megpixels, compact Flash storage, video mode, and a whole bunch of settings that you can tweak to your heart's content.

[Mac Write]

Get the Nikon CoolPix 995.

• 4x Optical zoom
• 4x Digital Zoom
• 1.8 inch LCD
• large Info/control panel display
• lense/viewfinder rotate seperatly from LCD
• Compact Flash
• Metal tri-pod mount
• Popup flash
• Manual Camera lovers dream with Shutter Prioity, Abapture priority, Fully Manual etc.
  [*[Shutter speed from 8 seconds to 1/2000 second and Bulb to 1 minute

$599. it's a great camera. correction Nikon is the best camera.

[Mac Write]

Get the Nikon CoolPix 995.

• 4x Optical zoom
• 4x Digital Zoom
• 1.8 inch LCD
• large Info/control panel display
• lense/viewfinder rotate seperatly from LCD
• Compact Flash
• Metal tri-pod mount
• Popup flash
• Manual Camera lovers dream with Shutter Prioity, Abapture priority, Fully Manual etc.
  [*[Shutter speed from 8 seconds to 1/2000 second and Bulb to 1 minute

$599. it's a great camera. correction Nikon is the best camera.

[profx]

ohhhh come on...

there must be more people than this with digicams!!

[Paragon]

go here...

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...threadid=14681

...it's all been talked about before.