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Need a new Digital Camera

OP... first a little background... I probably own like (I dunno) a dozen digital cameras and more film cameras than I care to admit. I've worked as a pro photog off and on for years. I'm a camera/photograpghy freak.

Do you know which one takes the best pictures?

THE ONE YOU HAVE WITH YOU.

Here's what I mean... I have $1000 Canon DSLR that takes horrible pix... WHY? Because I leave it home on the shelf where it is nice and safe. And try as I might, I can't take good pix from there.

On the other hand I have a $250 Olympus camera (720sw) that takes GREAT pictures. Why? Well, it is waterproof 16 feet and shockproof enough I can drop it from five feet off the concrete and it will survive. - As a result I have one in the car at all times and the wife carries one in her purse 24/7.

While everyone else it taking crappy cell phone pix because that is all they have on them, I'm taking nice pretty 8mp (I think it is 8) pix with a camera I carry 24/7.... including in the ocean with me.

The point is this. Special features and wonderful specs are fine and all but the most important part of the photo is YOU. -- I have a point and shoot that (no joke) has a special mode to shoot sushi with. Now who the hell needs that? Forget the megapixels and the ISO etc... get a camera you will carry with you and ENJOY using. THAT is what will make it a good camera.

Your name ain't Ansel Adams and your work will never be the American Museum of Photography... So get over having to have some great top of the line wundercamera.

If I had to get rid of everything I own and pick only one camera? I'd go buy whatever the current Olympus waterproof, shock proof is, get 3 memory cards and a spare battery.... And I'd shoot like crazy and enjoy every minute of it. Because I love by big Canon rig but at the end of the day if I had to pick one... I'd get the one I'd used the most.

Don't look for "the best" camera. Look for YOUR Camera.

Hope that hopes dude, you might not see it at first, but there's plenty of years of wisdom in there.
 
Gotta agree with Who is John Galt?, altho I've never felt I really needed a waterproof/shockproof camera, but lately I've just used the smallest P&S Canon PowerShot SD cams because anything else I end up taking absolutely nowhere... I've used mine while skiing w/o any issues too, the beach is the only place I don't take it (and where I'd see the value in a rugged Olympus model, they kinda have that niche cornered), but I have an older camera that's my beater which I take to the beach instead.

I do like having a 28mm wideangle lens on such a small camera, that's still not as common across most compacts, I've been tempted by some of the slightly larger 10X+ zoom compacts but ehh... All the models I've seen have minor issues here and there.
 
Who is John Galt? said:
Do you know which one takes the best pictures?

THE ONE YOU HAVE WITH YOU.
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The OP's wife is going to be lugging the camera around, not he himself. So, I'd say get the cheap DSLR, I guarantee the wife already has many bags that fits it. :)
 
If your still looking for a camera. I have this one and like everything about it. I have a full review of it below. I have a two part review, test pictures and video and a small write up on it. I also have HD videos on there that I've taken with the camera as well. Any video i've currently done in HD for Youtube has been with this camera. Start off at this page and if you want to check the other videos click my HD video player page.

http://bwone.com/sony-dsc-t900/
 
Well to update the thread:

I ended up with a nikon s630, and I have to say that so far I am extremely pleased.

I picked this because it had similar specs to some of the dslr-like cameras, and was a little cheaper, and its much smaller.

Thanks for all the help and advice
 
So long as it works for you and does what you want, good choice.

Can't say the same for your preference in NBA teams though... ;)
 
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