Recommend A Camera

[Acydebyte]

Dionwired has the Canon A3300 on special for R1000... its brilliant deal, bought it for my wife for Christmas and it was R1500... it takes brilliant photos and is perfect for travelling....

http://www.dionwired.co.za/photograp...ra-silver.html

[Flowerhat]

Geez, we can talk for pages about it, but here's my opinion for you in one sentence -

Forget DSLR, forget bridge, get one of the best P&S's out there - either Canon S100 (or S95 if you can still find one, they're both frikkin amazing!!!) or the bigger, but still very compact Canon G1 X (or previous G12).

OK, one sentence isn't enough... If you're happy with going larger, but still want P&S simplicity and avoid the complications of DSLR then a bridge camera may be the answer. Biggest (only) benefit is the extra zoom. But most people zoom too much... With the quality of something like the S100 for instance you can probably crop to an effective 10X zoom in any case. And the fact that you can use higher ISO with the larger P&S sensor of the S100/G1X, for way better low-light performance for me outweighs the zoom disadvantage by a mile - especially for a holiday trip.

If you feel the S100/G1X zoom is too short, I'd look for something in the Canon Ixus range with maybe 10x zoom and PQ that is regarded good for a P&S.

what about the canon sx40is

i bought the sony hx9v mostly becaure of the HD vid recording and all the built in presets with a 16mp 16x optical zoom

Unfortunately i find the zoom to be equal to that of my own eye vision.

Would have liked for it to be atleast double its current range.

Very happy with my camera otherwise.

Could you perhaps help with an educated comparison. How does my cam match up to the other high end superzooms?
Zoom wise

[froot]

I have a few of the Canon Sxx cameras (90 and 105). They're small but take decent photos.
I also have a Canon IXUS (200IS iirc). It takes brilliant photos, but its autofocus is ridiculously slow, so be wary of this. Luckily for me the battery went poof so I don't have to find an excuse not to use it. It did however have an awesome zoom and it was capable of incredible 720p video.

[beans100]

Hiya

First off, don't get me wrong, I love my SLR. The picture quality etc is superb (esp taking pics of my boys). Bought mine in Malaysai. But I tell you this much. that the 'loving your camera', *quickly*, goes, when you realise you carrying a brick around (don't get me started about lugging a mono or tripod around).

If you really after quality pics, and care about developing your pics, then go the SLR route. But if your pics is mainly for Facebook or something you are gonna put on DVD, and not really look at, don't waste your money, and the energy needed for carrying a SLR around. Just go for the best Muk and Druk you can get.

HTH

P.s. With P&S, with some of them, you can take video too. Just make sure you buy a few of the largest SD cards you can find, and get a good array of rechargeable batteries.

Ja, a friend of mine bought him a SLR and after a few months he told me that he is using his camera on his phone more and wants to sell his SLR.
He told me that he actually needed a cheap P&S camera and don't know why he bought a SLR:

[beans100]

I got my wife a Canon Powershot A580 for under a R1000 a few years back. I'd recommend that.

[Zarathustra]

I saw the Nikon Coolpix L310 for R1999 @ Game, does anyone have first hand experience with this camera i.e. Price vs Value for money & is it any good?!?

[d7e7r7]

I saw the Nikon Coolpix L310 for R1999 @ Game, does anyone have first hand experience with this camera i.e. Price vs Value for money & is it any good?!?

No first hand experience from my side but here's a review: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/ni...a-review-19389
and some Amazon custmer reviews: http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-revi...DateDescending

[Rouxenator]

What ever camera you get, make sure it runs on AA batteries. That why you can keep it running on Duracells from the local cafe if you do not have the time or a place to recharge. Sadly the last ultrazoom Canon that had that was the Sx20, but I think you can get some Fuji or Nikon bridge cameras that runs on normal AA batteries.