cuthbert
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Hello everyone,
My wife has a fairly old Sony Cybershot to mostly capture pictures of our little girl and days out with her friends etc... nothing too fancy, just something she has in her bag to carry around with her most of the time.
She's used my 5D2 a few times and is pretty amazed at it's responsiveness and now finds her current camera frustratingly slow (and mine very heavy!)
I've managed to really narrow down what she wants to these key points:
1) nothing too complicated - she likes taking pictures, but interchangeable lenses and full manual mode would be in her words "wasted" on her. she can play with my camera if she wants to experiment with these things after all.
2) something responsive. you press the shutter button, it takes the picture right then. no lag. this is probably the most important thing. kids move fast and by the time her compact has focused the child is usually long gone or looking the other way.
3) a good continuous shooting fps would be good too, but not as important as point 2.
4) a fairly versatile lens, she doesn't seem to mind too much the size of some superzooms. i had an sx10 a while ago... this would probably be as big/heavy as she would want to go. smaller if possible.
5) although she hasn't mentioned it, if it could do video in a half decent way she probably would use this from time to time, but this is no deal breaker.
6) megapixel count isn't that important, obviously we want to do prints from time to time (a4 max really) but as noise free and sharp as possible for a compact.
ideal world, budget no more than £200 but would stretch to £300 for the right camera.
any ideas and pointers greatly appreciated.
My wife has a fairly old Sony Cybershot to mostly capture pictures of our little girl and days out with her friends etc... nothing too fancy, just something she has in her bag to carry around with her most of the time.
She's used my 5D2 a few times and is pretty amazed at it's responsiveness and now finds her current camera frustratingly slow (and mine very heavy!)
I've managed to really narrow down what she wants to these key points:
1) nothing too complicated - she likes taking pictures, but interchangeable lenses and full manual mode would be in her words "wasted" on her. she can play with my camera if she wants to experiment with these things after all.
2) something responsive. you press the shutter button, it takes the picture right then. no lag. this is probably the most important thing. kids move fast and by the time her compact has focused the child is usually long gone or looking the other way.
3) a good continuous shooting fps would be good too, but not as important as point 2.
4) a fairly versatile lens, she doesn't seem to mind too much the size of some superzooms. i had an sx10 a while ago... this would probably be as big/heavy as she would want to go. smaller if possible.
5) although she hasn't mentioned it, if it could do video in a half decent way she probably would use this from time to time, but this is no deal breaker.
6) megapixel count isn't that important, obviously we want to do prints from time to time (a4 max really) but as noise free and sharp as possible for a compact.
ideal world, budget no more than £200 but would stretch to £300 for the right camera.
any ideas and pointers greatly appreciated.
