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#229870 - 04/08/2004 16:18 Good Digital Camera that is fast?
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 931
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
I have been looking at different digital cameras....I bought my dad a Sony DSC-10 and liked it, but the camera was slow to turn on...and often would take forever if it had trouble focusing on somethinng. I wanted to get a T1, but I heard that the flash sucks and indoor pictures look bad. Any other suggestions?

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#229871 - 04/08/2004 17:45 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
What's your budget range?
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#229872 - 04/08/2004 17:52 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: JBjorgen]
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 931
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
around $450 or less and I am looking for a 5 mp one

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#229873 - 04/08/2004 18:08 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
Cybjorg
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Registered: 23/12/2002
Posts: 652
Loc: Winston Salem, NC
I have used a Minolta Dimage G500 quite a bit. It is a nice 5MP camera with quite a few bells and whistles for less than $400. It is very compact, has an excellent battery life, takes good color quality pictures, and supports both SD/MMC and Memory Stick. It's worth checking out.

EDIT: I have a buddy who loves his Canon PowerShot A80. It is only 4MP, but it takes some nice pictures.

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#229874 - 04/08/2004 18:35 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
www.dpreview.com

They have more camera review than you can shake a bundle of sticks at.

-Zeke
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#229875 - 05/08/2004 00:08 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: Cybjorg]
jimhogan
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Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Quote:
I have a buddy who loves his Canon PowerShot A80. It is only 4MP, but it takes some nice pictures.


I got a Powershot A80 back in February and it is the Bee's Knees.
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#229876 - 05/08/2004 03:47 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
The Dimage X series machines are really fast starting up. They almost qualify as instant on.
Solidly made, without those annoying telescoping snouts you have to be so carefull not to strip the gears of.


Edited by gbeer (05/08/2004 03:49)
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#229877 - 05/08/2004 10:10 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
Regardless of which camera you choose, be sure to get the fastest media possible (different flash memory cards write data at different speeds). A fast card will improve almost any camera's response times.

-Zeke
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#229878 - 05/08/2004 11:10 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: Ezekiel]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
The speed of the media isn't majorly important unless you're taking a lot of shots in a row. The camera itself should have an internal buffer which stores the pictures until it has time to write them out. Obviously if you take too many too quickly then you'll have to wait for it to save them.

Rob Galbraith's CF Database page is useful. Even if you're not using CompactFlash cards, he brings up several points which are relevant for the rmedia types. Sometimes the manufacturers will switch controllers or flash chips part way through a product lifetime so what got tested as an amazing card by one person might turn out to be a mediocre card for another.

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#229879 - 05/08/2004 16:12 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: tman]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
My experience has been that it can have a large influence on start-up time and the time lag between record and play mode, as well as responsiveness when navigating inside play mode. I'm sure this varies somewhat between camera models, but in no case will a faster card hurt your performance.

-Zeke
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#229880 - 05/08/2004 16:31 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: Ezekiel]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Yeah. All three of the things you've mentioned are dependent on the speed of the card. Read speed for startup and navigation and write speed on switching as it has to write everything in it's buffer to the drive. Usually the read speed for all but the worst cards is more than most consumer cameras can handle.

Faster cards can't hurt but you don't need to spend mega bucks on some ultra super expensive turbo card. I've got a bunch of budget CF cards and I've never had any trouble. My IXUS 300 has enough shutter lag caused by the autofocus system anyway

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#229881 - 05/08/2004 16:41 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: tman]
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 931
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
so has anyone else tried the T1? what are your thoughts on it?

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#229882 - 05/08/2004 18:07 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: burdell1]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
i like my t1
http://l0ser.net/gallery
all except for .glam are taken with t1

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#229883 - 05/08/2004 21:46 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: RobotCaleb]
AndrewT
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Registered: 16/02/2002
Posts: 867
Loc: Oxford, UK
What type of pipe system were you using there and what's all the blue stuff? I'm guessing it's not solvent weld?

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#229884 - 06/08/2004 00:01 Re: Good Digital Camera that is fast? [Re: AndrewT]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
the blue stuff is Christy's Red Hot Blue Glue

pipe system?
as in : an underground sprinkler system?
or something else?

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