I'm close to buying a digital camera

"bugbear" wrote in message
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I've decided to make the jump from film to digital photography. I need
your advice as to which camera(s) to look at. I've pretty much made up
my mind to get a camera with an integrated zoom lens rather than
interchangeable lenses. Here are a few requirements:

Lens from 28-200mm (35mm equivalent)
Remote shutter release
Connection to an external monitor
* Almost no lag between shutter release and exposure.
Suitable for prints from 11 x 14 to 16 x 20
* connection for external flash unit
* Internal flash unit as far away from lens axis as possible

I think the requirments marked with an asterix
aren't doable (or are very rare) in a integrated.

Your upper bound print size is borderline too.

About 50% of my photography is studio portraiture using an electronic flash
kit (Norman, of course :-). The internal flash unit is just for snapshots.
If the camera has a hot shoe, I could use one of my existing flash units.
But I'm concerned about red eye, and other drawbacks of flash units too
close to the lens axis.

Norm

ve () wrote:

Reviewers of the Fuji superzoom cameras seem to think that 6+
megapixel is in perfect balance

Ideally I'd like the high-res EVF with the low-res sensor, but my
frustrating experience with a 115k EVF on the Canon S1 has led me to
worry about the EVF first and the sensor later. You can edit high-res
pictures for noise, etc if you need to. But you can't edit the screen
you have to look at every time you use the camera.

Andrew McP

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"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
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Since no-one seems to be answering your question, buy a Panasonic
FZ50.

Indeed, that is first solution that occurred to me. Is the sensor
quiet enough for a decent 11 x 14" print?

Norm

Might have to keep it on the lower ISO setting, or use noise reduction
software.

David

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
ve () wrote:

Reviewers of the Fuji superzoom cameras seem to think that 6+
megapixel is in perfect balance

Ideally I'd like the high-res EVF with the low-res sensor, but my
frustrating experience with a 115k EVF on the Canon S1 has led me to
worry about the EVF first and the sensor later. You can edit high-res
pictures for noise, etc if you need to. But you can't edit the screen
you have to look at every time you use the camera.

You have a good point there. Today I had the Fuji F6000/6500fd in my
hand, and the grainy 115k electronic viewfinder is quite a spoiler
of what otherwise seems to be a fine camera.

On 9 Feb 2007 01:37:34 GMT, ve wrote:
Andrew MacPherson wrote:
ve () wrote:

Reviewers of the Fuji superzoom cameras seem to think that 6+
megapixel is in perfect balance

Ideally I'd like the high-res EVF with the low-res sensor, but my
frustrating experience with a 115k EVF on the Canon S1 has led me to
worry about the EVF first and the sensor later. You can edit high-res
pictures for noise, etc if you need to. But you can't edit the screen
you have to look at every time you use the camera.

You have a good point there. Today I had the Fuji F6000/6500fd in my
hand, and the grainy 115k electronic viewfinder is quite a spoiler
of what otherwise seems to be a fine camera.

DPReview has a review up of the latest Panasonic superzoom, and one of
the major upgrades was a ~65% increase in the pixel count of the EVF (to
188k pixels). Hopefully, the other superzoom manufacturers will follow
suit.

-dms