thursday 1 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Kuma, you've got optical and digital zoom the other way round. Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 <cough>..yeah, you guys passed the test Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/search?q=point+shoot look at may 18, 2007 : building the perfect point & shoot and then a bit lower : how to choose a point & shoot and may 19,2007 rate your p/s you have to scroll down to those oh, and the cameras they recommend will be out of date by now Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 buried 3/4 way down a very long page: "Accordingly, the best advice I can offer with regard to choosing a digital point-and-shoot is: don't waste your time. I am not speaking colloquially—I don't mean you should forego the activity altogether. No. I'm saying if you spend long hours reading reviews, comparing features, gathering opinions, and agonizing over slight advantages and disadvantages, weighing pros and cons, you will be losing precious minutes and hours of your time on Earth that you will never get back. It doesn't matter if you have three choices, or thirty, or three hundred: if every option is crap, then the option you choose is going to be crap, and that's that. Therefore, the best course of action is to not worry about it. No matter which point-and-shoot you choose, it's still going to be a point-and-shoot. So go to any big-box store where they have rows and rows of point-and-shoots on display, spend five minutes (ten or fifteen if you're a gentleman or lady of leisure), and pick one because you like its look, color, size, or feel. Take the advice of the teenager with the colored logo-embroidered shirt on if that reassures you, go by name recognition, or pick one blindfolded. Regardless, at fifteen minutes you're comfortably into the region of diminishing returns. Effort beyond that is wasted. Pick one. Go home." Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 and there's more "Point-and-shoots came about as a category in the 1980s because consumers wanted to buy cameras like any other small appliance, such as, say, hair dryers or electric toothbrushes. They were meant to be so small that they could be carried effortlessly, and so simple that even people missing a section of prefrontal cortex the size of a scoop of ice cream could use them. " Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 haha, thats me!! I mulled for days which point and shoot digi cam I was gonna buy, I7m happy with what I got though!! Link to post Share on other sites
AK 77 0 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I think his point was, everything has limitations - PAS cameras being that they are all POS - so don't waste your life chosing which one to buy. Instead, spend the time learning how to work with it's limitations to take decent photos - and then you can enjoy the good points of them, like that you can put them in your pocket. There is a place for compact cameras - always in your pocket. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 and in the pocket thy shall stay. Actually, my phone cam is a 2mpix now. Good enough for jst the snappies, especially with a 2GB card. Even has a light for the vid. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Kuma, hahahahaha. Gotcha Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Soubs, you're next Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 and so too, BP, CB and Fatts. Hahahahahahaha Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Originally Posted By: thursday Soubs, you're next No idea what this is about. I tried taking a picture of the tit confection with the Nikon DSLR, but it wouldn't focus. I dug out the Canon digicam and it worked, albeit with a 3 second delay while it worked out wtf was going on. Of course, I'd have had no problems focussing my old manual Pentax. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Soubs, me on about you being relegated to the eighth position of most posts on the forum. Kuma neglected his duties so I got him. I presume you are using the 18-200. The closet focusing distance for that is 0.5m/1.6ft. And there is no way you can stand being that far away from such a confectionry Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Any views on Sony's DSC-H9? Anybody using one? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 It's the 18-55 kit lens. I should have focussed it manually. Where do you find the posting league table? Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 how could you catch up 130posts in a week??? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 by posting Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 that H9 is so big, you may as well go for a DSLR. In fact the H9 even tries to look like a DSLR. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 look at the quality of his posts kuma he's encroaching on my "" territory... Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 and so are you! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I got the 18-200 last night! Itching to put it through its paces... Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 is that another tamron one? Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 no, it's a Nikon Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Have not seen the H9 in actual fact but it surely must be smaller, lighter & cheaper than a DSLR with all lenses, etc... Link to post Share on other sites
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