Comments on: How to Buy a Digital Camera

By: Here is your del.icio.us goodness for 06-22 - mattherzberger.com

Here is your del.icio.us goodness for 06-22 - mattherzberger.com — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:05:57 +0000

[...] – How to Buy a Digital Camera I vote for Canon Rebel [...]

By: Jerrett

Jerrett — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:38:11 +0000

Get a Fuji or a Pentax :)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:27:09 +0000

I would not put much weight on comparing images to camera make. Your previous post on ‘Ten most …’ is way more important than the actual camera. Try to give some thought to what type of pictures you will want to take. If you want to do low light photography without flash then a camera with good performance at high ISO would be a good choice. Do you always want to carry the camera – if so then weight and size are important. Since you are looking at slr camera it is assumed that you will be buying additional lenes. Between the offerings from Tamron and Sigma and the manufactures own lenses you will a good choice no matter which camera you get. But again if you have a specific need that if best met with a particular lens then that might be the camera to choose. For example Pentax makes a very thin set of lenses that many find useful when photographing people – camera is less obtrusive and does not seem as threatening. If you basically just want a better point and shoot camera then most any of the models will work.

By: Damien McKenna

Damien McKenna — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:33:45 +0000

I love DPReview, but my only complaint is that they don’t lower the scores enough for cameras that take pictures slowly. One thing I really believe is that point-n-shoot cameras (which most people buy) should be very fast so that you don’t loose the picture you’re trying to take (was a problem with a Nikon we borrowed years ago). For example, our first digital camera was a Canon Powershot S30 and was really quite fast at taking pictures. We replaced it with the A95 (I think) which is noticably slower and a friend mentioned that its replacement is slower still, yet these still get very high scores.