Cameras

[427TJ]

Amen Keith. Ever since I bought my Sony Cyber-Shot with 2.5" LCD monitor and 3x optical zoom on 12-23-04 I have had nothing but fun with it. It takes excellent pictures and I dump the ones I don't like and e-mail the good ones to Costco for developing. I also use it in my eBay sales where good photo quality definitely helps sell things.

[musclecarjohn]

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Amen Keith. Ever since I bought my Sony Cyber-Shot with 2.5" LCD monitor and 3x optical zoom on 12-23-04 I have had nothing but fun with it. It takes excellent pictures and I dump the ones I don't like and e-mail the good ones to Costco for developing. I also use it in my eBay sales where good photo quality definitely helps sell things.

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Got the same camera which I won in a sales contest.Still learning how to use it...but it takes great pictures and is easy to use.Not the greatest in low light situations...any advice?

[Xplantdad]

Tripod...or for ease of carrying...a telescoping monopod?

[SS4Real]

Bruce,

About how many pictures can you take with your camera before you have to change batteries? I too am looking for a new camera. My current one (Minolta) eats batteries and takes about 12 pictures before it needs new batteries so I am concerned with battery life as well as good pictures. Thanks.

[ANDY M]

Spring for the Lithium battery.
Worth the investment. I have 8 NiCad batteries, and they need recharging after about 50-60 flash photos.
The Lith battery from my old camera still works after 2 years, and has never let me down.

[VintageMusclecar]

I have a Canon PowerShot S40 camera I purchased second-hand from a member over at TC a few years ago, and despite the fact that I'm certainly amongst the world's top 2% WORST photographers, it still manages to give me decent pictures.

No complaints what so ever other than this thing goes through a battery like the Cookie monster goes through Fig Newton's. I can get maybe 10-15 pictures or maybe 2 or 3 30-second video captures on a full charge before the "low battery" light comes on.

Where's a decent place online to pick up batteries for this thing?

Eric

[TXSS]

I would say your camera has a problem with only getting 12 pics before the bats are dead. I used my Fuji S5100 for 4 days at B-J and only had to change the 4 AA bats once. Around 300 pics 1600x1200

Rick

[Xplantdad]

I took around 800 pics at BJ and Pavillions and Dave's collection (basically Tuesday through Sunday)...and I replaced the batteries 3 times. Itook a fair amount of fill flash pictures, also.

I buy the batteries in bulk at Costco...so it's not really expensive. I haven't tried the rechargeable batteries yet....Hmmm

One other cool thing about the Fuji is that there are two digital viewfinders...one big square one on the back like most digital cameras have...but also a small one where the viewfinder on a normal 35mm SLR camera would be...I use the smaller one most often...it's more comfortable for me that way (I'm used to a 35mm SLR camera) and it uses less battery power that way. Those big viewfinder displays eat batteries like crazy...something else to consider when buying a camera

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I use CASIO EX-S500, very slim camera. I have a chip card on over 1000 for storage, takes about 450-500 hi quality pics..

Rechargeable battery is included, and a docking station too charge, so you dont have to take the battery out, use the same station for transfer of pics too.

I have bought 3 of this cameras, after i bought mine, we use a lot of cameras at my company here, and everything is really self explaining.. 2" inch screen,

Cost me something like 530,- US with the battery, docking station, and memory card.
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