Want new digital camera. Tried a Canon Digital Ixus 40 in the shop, here are bullet point impressions:
- Very small
- Nice big LCD on the back, very crisp picture
- Nice build quality
- It has 3x optical zoom, some more digital zoom (and digital zoom may be worthwhile on a 4M pixel camera) but from what I saw in the shop the zoom took the picture from wide angle to normal, it didn't go into telephoto territory. My Nikon Coolpix 2500 has useful zoom, if limited wideangle.
I'm tempted by the Fuji S5500, a larger format camera with 10x optical zoom. Thoughts:
- far too big for pocket
- complements my old Nikon better, I can keep that for snapping and portability and use this for real photos.
- 4xAA batteries so won't have to worry about battery life while out and about
- flash has got to be more powerful than coolpix (3m range) and being further from lens won't be so poor for red-eye (PaintShop Pro 9 and PaintShop Album and different red-eye removal tools that are quite effective but it would be nice to avoid it in the first place).
- takes videos at 30fps
- uses weird fuji/olympus XD Flash format which my TwinMOS 8 in 1 card reader cannot handle. Do they do a 9 in 1?
- could buy cheap from hong kong via ebay if I was a more trusting person.
Background, taking lots of baby photo's and not happy with results from Nikon. It's flash is weak.
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