Can someone help me choose my new camera?
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November 14th, 2009
My Canon PowerShot 750 decided to take a dirt nap, so it’s shopping time in our household! We already have a DSLR, but we like to have a Point-and-Shoot, because it’s easy to drop in wife’s purse or my pocket for short trips. We are looking for the latest and greatest features. These days it seems to be GPS tagging and Wi-Fi capability. Anyone has any experiences with P&S cameras that are GPS and Wi-Fi capable?
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Cameras with wifi and GPS? Holy crap, that’s cool. I hadn’t heard of that.
Haven’t camera shopped in a while, obviously, but I will recommend a fantastic site I’ve used multiple times in the past while choosing a new camera: Digital Photography Review. I like it because you can easily view specs for a ton of cameras, they even have sample photos from the camera models and reviews from users.
Anything by canon will hold up well… I don’t know about specifics, but I’d go on their web site and check out which ones you like best. Then wait for Black Friday or go to Sam’s Club and buy the one that’s the best deal. Most point and shoots will give you similar photos in my experience (I have a dSLR, too).
edit: Point and shoots by canon, anyway. I’ve seen some really tragic photos from like, “CoolPix” point and shoots and other non-canon or nikon brand digital cameras.
As far as P&S go I would go a Canon, something like the G9 is a fantastic camera, big sensor, good fast AF and low light performance, huge screen and for what you get it’s not overly priced. You can get wifi capabilities by using a Eye-Fi card
What’s great about the G9 is that it has some DSLR functions, i.e. the ability to change ISO on the spot (or just leave it on auto) and a view finder.
Alternatively perhaps look into the Olympus PEN E-P1 or the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1, these are P&S sized cameras with interchangeable lenses and the functions of both P&S and DSLR. Without breaking the budget for full sized DSLR’s
On the issue of point-and-shoots, I would also like to echo that the best choice is probably Canon. I’ve used a variety of point-and-shoot models and none of them take as consistently good photos as do the Canons. My friend just bought a Nikon CoolPix and, wow, the pictures are seriously awful in quality. I’m secretly appalled and don’t have the heart to tell her she wasted all that money.
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