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10-18-2011, 03:56 PM
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I have a DSLR, but want a decent point and shoot to grab on the go. I'd like to keep it under $200. Video is a plus. Manual setting options are good too. Other than that, I'm open.
I've read reviews and looked at the sites, but I would like to hear what your real world experiences are.
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10-18-2011, 06:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I carry a Canon DSLR and usually had a Canon SD600 with me. I'll reach for an SD anytime, but lately I've settled for my iPhone 4... strangely good camera that I don't need to carry a point and shoot for 90% of stuff I do.
But if I am carrying a P&S it's a Canon SD of some sort.
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10-19-2011, 02:59 PM
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10-19-2011, 03:08 PM
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10-19-2011, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mrpackerguy I had high hopes for this thread as I'm in the market too. | I thought there would be a lot more activity. |
10-19-2011, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | You WOULD think there would be more activity, but the segment is going away fast as the tech in camera phones advances. This segment for cameras should be DOA within a year...
Panasonic, Canon and Fuji make excellent point and shoots, Nikon does too, but I prefer their DSLR's.
My local BigLots was blowing out 12mp Kodak point and shoots for 80 bucks NIB. Still not that great a deal, but a decent price. Shop around tiger direct, new egg, and watch on Woot.com....they pop up all the time. iirc, woot had some earlier this week. read up on Gizmodo or Engadget too....reliable reviews.
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10-19-2011, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | P&S cameras are rapidly being replaced by Compact Systems and Bridge Cameras, not to mention mobile tech.
I think there'll always be some market there tho.
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10-19-2011, 03:36 PM
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10-19-2011, 03:38 PM
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10-19-2011, 06:28 PM
| | | I like Ken Rockwell's camera site.
Here he gives a list of recommended cameras at various price points.
$200 is about 1/3rd the way down the page: Recommended Cameras
Poke around the site and you'll find lots of common-sense photo advice. |
10-19-2011, 07:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota - Twin Cities | | | For band use, I'm a fan of Sony stuff.... you can program it to NOT use flash and do burst.
I keep one on my stand.. can hand it out to someone... then have 100+ shots back
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10-19-2011, 07:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | S95 is excellent & worth the extra cost if you can swing it. I'd wait for it; I wouldn't waste $200 on a jpeg'r. If you can find a p&s that shoots raw files, fine. But the S95 can (out)perform like no tomorrow, in the dark, without flash, with video, in stereo. I got one to shoot bands--a lot of venues don't allow SLR's but you can get brilliant, rich shots with the S95. Great color AND you can bracket on it. My prediction is every photojournalist will abandon their heavy gear & walk around w an S95 in hand if they haven't already.
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