Advise Needed To Buy D-Cam

[woonming]

Guys what is the difference between Optical Zoom 3x and Digital Zoom 3x?

Anyone could recommend me which mode and brand should my budget be about S$600.00.

*My old Digital cam suck up batteries like no tomorrow.

Thank you.

Ming

[Vinoth]

Hope this article will help.

http://www.photoxels.com/article_zoom.html

[Dispar_Anthias]

If your max budget is $600.. den you can get sony DSC-w1... ard $575.. 5.1 megal pixel cam

[ervine]

Do NOT get digital zoom.. might as well just photoshop resize...

Your decision on a P&S cam also depends on how much control u want with the camera. Generally speaking Canon cameras are pretty decent because of their rather accurate white balancing, the canon A series comes to mind for manual control, the ixus for style...

But then again, I've used my gf's olympus mui 400 and the pictures turned out fine at 4R....

[lightningstrike]

juz got an ixus 40 as a compact cam. not too bad....... but of coz....... compact cameras do hv their limitations.

[ryz]

optical zoom uses the lens to magnify the image. such is the technology used in telescopes and binoculars.. rendering sharp images even though the objects are far away.

digital zoom basically is like enlarging a photo using paint. try to enlarge some photos and u will find the quality deteriorates.

[williammuk]

Do NOT get digital zoom.. might as well just photoshop resize...

Agree. Optical zoom is more important.

Ming, the other thing I always consider is the macro capabilities of the camera because I want to be able to take fairly decent macro shots of the reef.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Ya but guys.. his budget only 4600

[ervine]

If you talking abt macro reef then maybe even the ability to mount on an external flash and adapting on a macro lens or close up filter would come to mind... Still the canon A series comes to mind..

But if you are like me who are picky abt the design of products, I don't like the look for the canon A series...

[williammuk]

Ya but guys.. his budget only 4600

I think $600 can get a fairly good 4 (or maybe even 5) mega-pixel camera liao.

Check out www.dpreview.com for some ideas.

[Dispar_Anthias]

I think $600 can get a fairly good 4 (or maybe even 5) mega-pixel camera liao.

Check out www.dpreview.com for some ideas.

ya but i guess most canon cam are over budget for him

[terryansimon]

woonming....

go to a place like...MS Colour or Alan Photo, although Alan Photo may be a bit hard if you go at specific times.

try out all their cameras that are within your said budget.

see which one fits your hand the most. it's important that the camera, though a performer, should fit your shapes egronomically. like me. the reason why I pass over smaller cameras is because they seem to dwarf in comparisson to my hands.

play with them. note down the model, come back home and go online for some research.

that's what I normally do lah, although I prefer playing around with cameras at places like Cathay Photo, as the people there are much more knowledgeable *in my personal and very humble but biased opinion, lah.*

[woonming]

Thank you so much all for the input.

Acctually it is my sister who is buying it LOL...........

Will get her here to read up ..

Thx..

Ming

[ervine]

Oh.. hm.. usually females (don't mean to be sexist or anything here, it's just a trend I noticed) will prefer to get one that's small and handy... maybe even brainless... so best is she go down and see what she likes..

As it is most digicams nowadays are almost on par with one another in terms of image quality.. and without close scrutiny u can hardly tell...

[williammuk]

For your sis ... then maybe she'd like the Panasonic Lumix FX-7 or Casio Exlim 55.

[Dispar_Anthias]

For your sis ... then maybe she'd like the Panasonic Lumix FX-7 or Casio Exlim 55.

lumix 7 i guess over the budget liao the casioone i not sure.... If on budget get sony DSC- w1 loh... 3Xoptical zoom... using carl zeiss vario tessar lens

[williammuk]

lumix 7 i guess over the budget liao the casioone i not sure.... If on budget get sony DSC- w1 loh... 3Xoptical zoom... using carl zeiss vario tessar lens

Lumix FX-7 uses Leica lens. Can get around $685. But the battery life a bit short. I heard the Casio one has much longer battery life.

[terryansimon]

his sister's budget is below $600 I believe. (=

woonming...get your sister to get the Ixus 40. everybody seems to be getting it. if you haggle hard enough, you can get it at close to $600. (=

or I can do it for you lah. if you want. (=

[bwilly]

me panasonic user.. intro u ..FX7.

doubt small compact digi cam comes with antishake like panasonic.

Try to buy from MS colour (AMK) or Alan Photo (SLS).

check out the normal retail price, usually at either of the shop, will give u lower price from $50-100.