PHOTOGRAPHIC THREADS: camera queries, any photo tech stuff!

[Anthony Darby]

Top of the range camera for £250? What range?

[Ian Y]

David, I have not tried the Fuiji S5700 but I just looked it up on the net and it looks a very good buy with plenty camera for the money.
I pay little attention to the magazine reviews as they can vary greatly depending on who reviews it and for which magazine however they are worth reading. My favourite cameras have been slated by reviews in the past.
If the Fuiji S5700 feels good in your hands that is most important it certainly has all the specs to deliver top rate pictures and with easy to set controls I would say go for it.
The camera shop assistants will continually try and push you to get the latest highest spec model to increase the sales figures, that is their job, which often means that people end up with a camera that is over specked with controls that they will never use and only make it difficult for them to use.
Also buying over the internet will save you a lot of money, I have bought all my digital cameras that way and have had excellent service and very rapid delivery usually within 24 hours or less.

[Anthony Darby]

I second that (well, thats?) Ian. Horses for courses. My Nikon D70 has just come back from the repairers, so I have been using Vivienne's wee Olympus at medium spec. OK, it's a bit hit or miss, but using the extra close-up facitlity I managed to take the second bee pic, crop it and print it out A4 with no loss of quality. I still like the eye piece rather than the screen of my Nikon though.

[Rob]

I prefer using the screen on my camera. By using the screen I can hold the camera at arms length when taking closeups of bees/insects, and they don't fly off as quickly as when using the eye piece.

Rob

[Anthony Darby]

I can't focus on the screen at arms length , and with the Nikon I'm further away because of the focal length of the lens. When I was taking pics of the bee the camera was within 6" of the flower. With my Nikon I can be 6' away.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Ian, and others, for comments, I really liked the little Fuiji S5700, it seeded to suit my non-technical attitude to photography. I've just been told, by the most important member of the family, to hang off for the present as I have a big birthday coming up next February (you know the one Lesley!!) and the kids are already asking her what they could buy Dad for the big one. So, I shall keep a keen eye on the market place until then.

[Anthony Darby]

No rush then?

[Maggi Young]

I've just been told, by the most important member of the family, to hang off for the present as I have a big birthday coming up next February

No rush then?

Just a dawgone minute there, Musky... what about Father's Day, coming up fast on 17th June?
You go for it, that's what I say! A Pop is a precious thing.... tell them I said so!

[David Nicholson]

Having, for years, passed off Father's Day as just a way for retailers to earn extra and refused to have anything to do with it, I can hardly change views now can I. I can wait until February. Mind you, if I feel tomorrow like I felt when I got up this morning I'm not certain to make February-is it possible to transmit the 'feeling rough virus' via the Internet?

[ranunculus]

Don't you go spreading that around the forum David....some of us are off to warmer parts in the morning. 

That reminds me, shouldn't I be packing?

Take care everyone and keep the pot gently stewing while I'm away please.

[Anthony Darby]

Enjoy Yorkshire Cliff.

[David Nicholson]

Cliff, take care and have a great time.

[Maggi Young]

Goodness me, Cliff, I thought you had already left, which is why I did not post happy holiday greetings to you after you told us you were going away! So, Happy Hols, take lots of pix, you know we'll want to see them!

[ranunculus]

Thanks for the good wishes everyone.....now where did I put those bicycle clips?   T'is a hell of a trek o'er them Pennines Anthony.

[David Nicholson]

Were you aware that Paris lies a little to the north of Holmfirth? See Yorkshire see the World