Canon Digital Camera
Posted by Pixelhead
We are headed out to New Orleans this upcoming weekend and as Lizzie has said this should be a prime opportunity for taking photos. It sounds like it would be a good opportunity to buy a new digital camera. My current Kodak EasyShare C643 is an Okay basic point and shoot camera. My biggest gripe with it is that I miss too many shots because of the delay.
I had been to BestBuy the other day and was window shopping(big mistake) and decided I liked the Canon Digital camera that had 12x zoom. I didn’t have anything to write with, so I am not sure what the model was that I was considering.
I had also seen a Sony Digital Camera that I thought was great, but then Lizzie and I are a little scared of putting Sony Software on my computer. I have learned to be cautious of downloading software from Sony.
But this morning, Lizzie was online comparing Cameras and she came up with several cameras that I could pick from which included:
Neither of these cameras was the one I had seen, but of the two, I think the S3 would be a better camera for my needs(wants).
The camera that I saw I believe was the Canon PowerShot S5 IS, which is also pictured above. The Canon S5 is still a point and shoot camera, but it does have some more advanced features that I believe I would love to learn to use.
What Camera do you recommend?
I am looking at Point and Click models, and don’t want to be changing lenses at this point in time. Does anyone have any opinions on these cameras, or recommend another Digital Camera?
Buy a Canon S5 IS
Written by Pixelhead on November 2nd, 2007 with
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#1. November 4th, 2007, at 8:48 PM.
I can’t recommend a specific model – sorry, “dropped out” of the market – but I wouldn’t hesitate to go with any Canon.
Sony makes a lot of the sensor chips in digital cameras; most Nikons use Sony chips, even their digital SLRs. A few other companies produce their own. And Canon is one of them … but they’ve taken die-fab to a new level. They’ve been making their own chips since day one, and they’ve perfected it. Canon’s technology has a noticeably better signal-to-noise ratio, which translates to clearer photos. They don’t have ugly specs throughout the frame, or a rough texture … and because they’re so much better at this, software later on down the pipeline doesn’t blur the image so aggressively to hide the noise.
High end Nikon SLRs have a significant problem with noise at moderate and high ISO settings, because of the Sony chips. At least while I was using compact cameras, Sony was always dogged by noise in their cameras. Most are. ( And, in fairness, it’s not like film doesn’t have grain. ) Canon’s chips are just better.
And they know how to build superb lenses!