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lmtoth2
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We love Canon here. We got my mom a camera similar to your first link. I have the Canon Powershot SD600 (last year's model) and love it. Mine is very small (can fit in your pocket). My husband worked at Best Buy over Christmas last year and recommends the Canon's
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Paintsmeblue
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Location: Rhode Island
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| Thanks for all the insight! I really do want the first one. It seems sensible. But we just rebuilt Anthony's computer so I'll have to see if I can afford it >.< |
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River Rat
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Location: New Jersey
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| lmtoth2 wrote: | | We love Canon here. We got my mom a camera similar to your first link. I have the Canon Powershot SD600 (last year's model) and love it. Mine is very small (can fit in your pocket). My husband worked at Best Buy over Christmas last year and recommends the Canon's |
I had a Canon G2 for my first digital and it was great except for one thing: when I tried to take photos of my paintings, I got a weird moiré effect from light bouncing off the texture of the canvas. It looked like radiating lines in an odd pattern superimposed over the painting. I checked out the cameras of a friend who had Nikons and that effect wasn't present. Nikon uses a filter to deal with the problem. Doing a Google search I found that others were experiencing the same thing with that and similar Canon models when photographing anything that included textured cloth. Canon denied that the problems had anything to do with the construction of their camera, though, when I wrote to them, which didn't endear them to me!
That said, Canons are great for most purposes, just not for mine. And for all I know they may have addressed that problem by now.
Digital SLRs like my Nikon have one other advantage: there's no shutter lag. That's important when trying to catch fleeting expressions, as I need to do for my portraits. The other neat thing about them for me is that I've owned nothing but Nikons since the late sixties, so my new camera was able to accept all my newer lenses!
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annieG
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Location: Utah and South Carolina
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What Nikon do you have...my Nikon has shutter lag and I need to upgrade to be able to catch expressions and movement 
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River Rat
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Location: New Jersey
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| annieG wrote: | | What Nikon do you have...my Nikon has shutter lag and I need to upgrade to be able to catch expressions and movement |
Annie, I have the D70; it's been replaced with several similar models but I'd go with the higher-priced rather than the lower of the choices if you can. Any of the Nikon digital SLRs would probably be good, though.
Another neat feature, although most digitals probably have this one, is the ability to take shots in quick succession automatically. I got some great photos that way of my granddaughter releasing shorebirds after the researchers were finished with them. The birds seemed to explode out of her hands!
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annieG
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Leslie...that is exactly what I want...need to get those aligator shots one after another 
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River Rat
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| annieG wrote: | | Leslie...that is exactly what I want...need to get those aligator shots one after another |
Hopefully not chewing and swallowing...
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seazr
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Location: Sacramento
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Hahahaha!!!
My Nikon 8800 is not an SLR but it also has the fast shot succession but you have to set it tp perform that function.
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Cinsmom
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Location: KC area
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| I use a Canon PowerShot s1is. I love it. It takes great zoom pictures and even though I haven't learned how to do it yet, takes videos. I need to pratice that part of it. There are so many things I would think "If I just had a video...". |
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JETA
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I'm a digital camera freak and a canon user. I have two professional digital slrs & one entry slr. I'd go with the most camera you can get. The entry slr's are nice because you can shoot on auto until you get used to doing the settings yourself. Someone mentioned the bursts. That is a really nice feature for shooting your animals. I know myself when I have a camera with one shot I always just miss the shot.
If you have any questions about Canon's slr's lmk. I'm no expert, but may be able to help.  |
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