Advise: What pocket digital camera?

[reAnimate]

I'm after a new digital camera after I sat on my current one. Grrr.

Must Have:

View finder as well as screen
Battery to be chargable
Fast in action - i.e. when you click the button it doesn't hang around before taking the picture
Fast scrolling of images

Nice to have
Mega optical zoom

Any recommendations? No idea where to start looking.
Thanks,


Simon.

[Mrs Fish]

I'm moving you to the photography forum, you'll have more info there

[GetCarter]

www.dpreview.com is a good place to start.

[Stu R]

canon IXUS is a fantastic little pocket cam range.
I've got the 900Ti and had the IXUS 70 I think it was, both superb little cameras that take some cracking shots. Can't wait to get mine back (left it in dubai) as nokia N95 phone camera is terrible.

[Al Up North]

reAnimate said:

I'm after a new digital camera after I sat on my current one. Grrr.

Must Have:

View finder as well as screen
Battery to be chargable
Fast in action - i.e. when you click the button it doesn't hang around before taking the picture.
Fast scrolling of images

Nice to have
Mega optical zoom

Any recommendations? No idea where to start looking.
Thanks,


Simon.

I'd say,... Try one of the Fuji FinePix range. By far the best colours on the market. That includes competing with the highest end Nikon and Canon bodies.

I'd use a top of the range Fuji like a shot (they take Nikon lenses), but the performance isn't good enough for my line of work. They have a dead slow fps rate, and take far too long to write files, and also without a decent buffer rate.

My old man uses a £200 Fuji. It's more than adequate to meet the requirements of yer average user. It has an amazing exposure latitude for a mass market digital, and if I'm right they use, basically the same ccd technology right through their entire range these days.

Oh,... and the file sizes are amazing!

I used a Fuji S2 pro for a spell, a few years ago, coupled with top of the range Nikon lenses. Huge files and SUPERB colour reproduction!

My old man's £200 Fuji delivers similar colour quality, and even the fixed optical (i think it's 10x) zoom lense on it ain't to shabby.

I'm guessing,... but I thinks the old man's is someting like a Fuji S6500. It has both a view finder and lcd screen, and serves his purpose (usually snapping the grand children clowning about) very well indeed.

Hope this is of some use to you??

Happy snapping!
Al

[Viper_Larry]

I noticed yesterday that Sainsburys were flogging the Fuji Finepix F31FD @ £100 off - £135 I think. Getting on a bit now, but a highly recommended camera and at that price, a bargain.

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/digital/cameras/f31/?lpa...

[reAnimate]

This is all great - many thanks.

[Moose.]

I nearly went for that Fuji but it doesn't have an optical view finder so got a Sony DSC-W55 instead:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Cyber-shot-DSC-W55-Di...

Very pleased with it, especially the large screen and slick user interface. Almost makes the view finder redundant!

Edited by Moose. on Tuesday 14th August 12:47

[reAnimate]

Have gone for the Fuji - family have a recent sony and it is frustratingly slow