Comments on: Snap Unhappy

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:35:16 +0000

Ta for the recommendations, fellas.

I’d quite like to get a DSLR and be done with it. The Nikon’s do sound pretty good. I will have a good look around in the new year sales for one of those.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:48:31 +0000

Forget pocket sized and jump in head first into the world of DSLRs. The Nikon D40 takes awesome photos, is incredibly light and modestly priced. Set it to auto and away you go, feel more adventurous set it to full manual and mess on. I’m on my 3rd Nikon camera, now using the D80, not because they’ve broken just because I can’t help myself and they are super user friendly.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:58:58 +0000

Ive been using canon ixus at work for a while, despite one getting nicked the fact they came with rechargable batterys and a dock sold me.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:01:59 +0000

I’ve had a Sony P200 cybershot 7.1mp for a couple of years now and I’ve been pretty happy with the photos it produces.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:24:21 +0000

Thanks Andrew

I received a mini brochure from Jessops today (photography chain of stores in the UK) and there are some pretty good deals in. I’ll have to explore each camera’s specs more but £150 for a 7MP Canon Ixus is a reasonable price. And there’s a Nikon DSLR in there for £260

But, with Christmas coming I mustn’t over exert my credit card on presents from me to me

By: Andrew15*

Andrew15* — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:45:25 +0000

Sam, quite a few choices here. Hopefully that can help!

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:40:41 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the Nikon Coolpix, Sarah. Funnily enough I saw a 5MP Coolpix a few weeks back for around £59 which I was tempted to buy as it was a good price. But, since you have a lack of control over the shutter speed I’m glad I didn’t now. That’s the thing I love about the Cybershot – I know the functions well now for night shots (that over exposed pic last week was totally my fault as I was in a hurry and didn’t check the correct settings) and I felt the Fuji and the Olympus totally lacked the control I was used to, hence the reason I always came back to the old faithful.

Since I won’t be buying for a couple of months I hope there’s some good deals going around in the sales for DSLR’s

By: SarahG

SarahG — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:46:07 +0000

My camera is a Nikon Coolpix 7mp. These have been discontinued but I’d imagine the newer Nikon equivalent is just as good. However my main complaint is that I just have to rely on scene modes to control the shutter speed etc. whereas I believe you can do this manually on a cybershot.

I think if I bought another compact camera I’d go for a cybershot as I reckon you get more control with the settings on that. However I’ll probably wait until I can afford a Canon 400D or something like that.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:50:08 +0000

Cheers Adam, that looks like a good one. I have called Jessops up a few times to ask for some info on their SONY digicams and I couldn’t believe how much hatred the salesmen there have for SONY I’ve spoken to at least 3 or 4 different people and they tried to do everything they could to put me off a SONY. Not sure what’s going on there at all but if a customer is interested in buying this brand from them then surely talking them out of it isn’t a good idea for business. Mind you, not that I’d buy one from them anyway as they are very overpriced.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:34:34 +0000

I’ve just got a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55 (http://flickr.com/cameras/sony/dsc-w55/) which is great although I haven’t been able to test it fully yet so far things are good.