What is the best digital camera to purchase?

Posted by admin on October 12, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

This is intended for users to define the beginning time as well as ending time. You can trim the section you want through either defining a specific time or an ending time or drag the side bars at the two ends to clip the movie section. The later is much more convenient. Keep in mind that you must hit the button of “Apply” and “OK” or you have spend all the time in vain.This is a great camera. Just bought it a week ago, took it to Hawaii and found out what great pictures it takes. The photos have good color, clarity, saturation and look very natural. I only had to tweak a couple of pictures with the included software which is very good as well.
The night snapshots worked very well as long as you don’t zoom in. Probably the most surprising feature was the video (movie) mode. All the movies I took turned out extremely well for a point & shoot camera. Even some night time shots at the Luau of a fire dancer where almost all the lights were off was good. Not as good as a dedicated video camera, but for having to carry only one camera – it was more than acceptable. Overall I love it – would recommend to anyone.
The Osprey is a great backpack two of my kids have them for collage. Since you have that bag I would suggest for the Camera body and a lens in this type of bag:
And then get for your additional lenses.
Pros: Small, easy point and shoot, start up time about 1.5-2 sec. Shot to shot about 2 sec with settings about middle for picture quality. Video really works well. Battery lasted almost 5 days (about 250 pics and 15 1-3 min videos). Nice sized LCD and many manual features which I didn’t use many of except for night snapshot. 5x optical zoom – larger than most in this class.
Cons: Have to take battery out of camera to charge. Wish shot to shot time was a little faster, but is acceptable.
Canon PowerShot SD890IS
10-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
5x optical image-stabilized zoom
Face Detection; Motion Detection Technology automatically reduces blur
2.5-inch PureColor LCD II screen for bright, accurate color and wide viewing angle
Captures images to SD/SDHC, MMC/MMC Plus/HC MMC Plus memory cards
You are asking for a fair bit there. Most digital cameras that are available for purchase these days have a video resolution of 320 x 240 or 640 x 480.
This is a fairly low resolution for video but is still decent quality. If you are prepared to go out of your budget there are other more expensive cameras with a higher video recording resolution.