Cameras

Keith Tedford · #1 01-31-2006, 10:18 PM

A little advice for the young, and not so young. Buy the best camera you can afford and take twice as many pictures as you think that you need. With digital cameras, unlimited, quality pictures won't break the bank, just store the ones you aren't ready to print. Looking back at all those grainy pictures from 110 cameras and the like can be aggravating. Restoration work would certainly be alot easier with sharp images. You don't get much when you blow up a picture that is grainy to start with.

**COPO** · #2 01-31-2006, 10:47 PM

Has anyone come across a compact digital camera that can take wide angle pictures comparable to a 35 mm SLR camera using a 28mm lens? None of the digitals that I have seen take wide angle shots. They all talk about the zoom feature which isn't useful for full car shots.

70Z · #3 01-31-2006, 10:57 PM

Glad you brought this up. I've been meaning to buy a nice camera and have wanted to ask Bruce(Xplantdad) what he use's to take those great pics.

Bruce, any words of wisdom?

CamarosRus · #4 02-01-2006, 01:22 AM

Phil, My CANON PowerShot S60 (similar to S70,S80) has a Wide Angle Lens and 3.5 optical zoom vs most 5MP Cameras 3.0 ZOOM. Shop On Line for this and read Camera Reviews at sites like.....
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/

I'll be the first to admit I have far to go in learning how better to take pictures....but I can tell you from my recent Barrett-Jackson trip.....it is NICE to be able to stand relatively close to a car and have the wide angle lens capture ALL of the car.....

CamarosRus · #5 02-01-2006, 01:24 AM

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0405/04051001canons60.asp

**Xplantdad** · #6 02-01-2006, 03:36 AM

Tom,

I have a Fuji Fine Pix S5100, which is now 2 years old. The newer model is the S5200, which does everything that mine does, but has a few more pixels...

Fuji's site has a good write up on the features of the camera HERE! . What I like about this camera is that it's fully automatic, but you can also override all the automatic features and make it fully manual like a regular 35mm camera...

You can have selectable aperature and selectable shutter speed. It also takes great video.

I paid ~$375 for mine 2 Christmases ago at Best Buy...If you check their website HERE!, you'll notice it's $399.99 now. They go on sale all the time, too...so check your Sunday Best Buy ad.

The camera is well worth the money and is also great in low light situations with no tripod.

I had one of the guys I know at Pavillions who looks at the pictures all the time ask me the same question...and I told him the same thing...He got the S5200 and is jazzed with it!

Enough information, Tom?

Eddie M. · #7 02-01-2006, 05:40 AM

Bruce all the pics you took at the auction were done useing auto?

**COPO** · #8 02-01-2006, 05:43 AM

Bruce the Fuji is very nice but too damn big. Chuck, that Canon may be the ticket. I have the Canon SD400 now and it it tiny and a geat size to carry, but no wide angle. The S70 still looks pretty small and with a 28mm equivalent lens looks like a good camera for car pics. Thanks guys.

**Xplantdad** · #9 02-01-2006, 05:44 AM

Eddie, most all of them were, yes....I'd say 98%. It's an awesome camera...and I've seen the newer version on sale for ~ $350....

**Xplantdad** · #10 02-01-2006, 05:45 AM

Oh, and one final thing with the Fuji...you can use all of your 35mm filters on it , too. They screw onto the front the same as a normal 35mm.

COPO...that's cool!

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