Friday, November 11, 2005
What I Want in a Digital Camera
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
"Since I began my search to replace my aging Olympus C-2100 UZ (I still miss my Uzi sometimes), I've yet to find a digital camera that I'd say is close to my ideal. Even if price weren't an issue, every model offered up in the past 2 years is lacking something important to me. So, here's my annotated "short" list of digital camera requirements: [first] excellent picture quality. It seems obvious to me that this should be near the top of anyone's list who really cares about the camera he/she uses. But oddly enough, and contrary to the belief that technology improves with time, cameras being announced recently seem to offer us worse image quality than cameras being made a few years ago. There is much gnashing of teeth over the increasingly noisy 5-9 megapixel sensors being stuck in 'prosumer' and enthusiast non-DSLR cameras. The manufacturers seem to believe that we're willing to put up with incredibly noisy (even at ISO 100) images as long as they're really, really big. Sorry...that doesn't make any sense to me. I'd take a clean 3MP image over a noisy 8MP image any day of the week."
Craig has quite a list of things he wants, and things he doesn't like about modern cameras. The closest thing I could think of for his needs is the Fujitsu FinePix S9000, but it doesn't match up 100% with his needs. How does his list compare with what you want from a digital camera? And can you think of the "perfect" camera for him?
Craig has quite a list of things he wants, and things he doesn't like about modern cameras. The closest thing I could think of for his needs is the Fujitsu FinePix S9000, but it doesn't match up 100% with his needs. How does his list compare with what you want from a digital camera? And can you think of the "perfect" camera for him?
