New camera suggestions please..

hi marley, i bought a kodak easy share v1253 12 mega pixels, it takes nice pictures easy to use, great size you can put it in your pocket, i did have my little clearshot sony in that was a great little camera unfortunately it got stolen out of hubbys bag when he came back from africa via france.i wanted a panasonic lumix they are great cameras might buy one in the future you can get the 12 mega pixels but they are very expensive well over £200, heres pics of my kodak, i know what you mean as ive got the fuji s9600 and its quite big to carry around
hope you decide and good luck with what you get.

 

Hi, Marley. You may want to give my Sis a shout. You've seen the quality of her photos and hers is a pocket one, a Ricoh I believe. She's off to the UK at the crack of dawn for a couple of weeks but she'll probably be on line later.

Good luck in finding something that suits your requirements.

Speak later. :luv:

 

Is the Canon one, the one you take all your wonderful photos with ? Have always admired some of your photos as the shots are so clear and colourful !!

We had a lovely camera before (also a cannon one but very, very expensive) but it somehow ended up knocked on the floor and broke, so am borrowing my mums kodak easyshare at the moment but am definately on the look out for something good and reasonable priced.

My other half keeps/breeds Malawi Chichlid fish and is often taking photos of the vivid colours etc .... so do you think yours would be good for that also ?

 

Hi Marley, as Sis said, I have a Ricoh Caplio R6. The R8 came out just after I bought mine, that's why I got it cheap, only €150 down from €300, last September. I used it for the first time when we visited Sis and b-i-l in Portugal last October-November.

There are all sorts of features on it, many of which I have never even got around to reading all about, never mind use them.

The Canon Ixus is good too, that is what I was actually thinking about buying, but then I saw the Ricoh, and my mind was immediately made up.

If you google it, you'll find out all about it. Good Luck with whatever you decide on getting.

 

Thanks for that Wiseoldowl .... will have a look round at prices etc but think it might be a good option ..... might have to wait till the winter now though when im not spending money on plants!

Your Jack Russell - does its ears usually stick up ? Reason I ask is because our little Jack has pricked ears so just wondered if yours had too as never seen it on a Jack before although the vets did say its quite common

 

change the subject a little took these pics yesterday with my kodak i was on top of promenade and used the zoom 12 pixels.

 

I have a sony cybershot and I love it. No shutter delay. Little need of flash 7'2 megapixels. I just shove it in my pocket for the very reasons you state Marley. Just point and shoot

 

I like my Canon S3 (there will be a newer model, by now, no doubt - and presumably more than the 6 MP of the S3 I have)

Its a pocket buster, I'm afraid, but I moved up from a pocket-sized digital camera (Canon A70 I think) and wanted something that got me a little closer to my film SLR's of yester-year.

Take 4 AA batteries :thumb:
Nice range of adjustments
twist-any-angle preview LCD but also Viewfinder - great for really bright sunlight, and because I am old fashioned! (its actually an LCD in the viewfinder, so not as clear as an optical path, but its fine for framing the shot)
12x optical Zoom (15x digital I think) ...
... and stability control means that you can hand hold full zoom without tripod etc.
Panorama mode (shows 50% of previous image in viewfinder to assist lining up next frame)

Movies limited to 1 minute (regardless of card size) - but I believe this no longer the case on current models

Cannon software suits me well.