Paging the camera likers

A mate's just bought a Panasonic Lumix TZ3. I had a brief meddle with it and
it seems absolutely dirt cheap to me - 10x optical zoom (does equivalent of
28-280mm) with IS and it seems to be sold at around £150. I'd struggle to
get a decent 300mm telephoto for my old Nikon SLR for that money, and I'd
have to carry around a selection of lenses too. Granted it doesn't have
aperture priority modes and the like.

Is it as good as it looks or am I just hugely behind in what's available in
the world of fairly cheap digicams? Something with aperture priority and
shutter priority modes would be nice, but then again so would not lugging a
big SLR around for snaps, waiting for developing etc, and faffing around
with phone cams for ebay and the likes. The way I see it, with something
like that there's the chance that I'll actually have it on me when I see
interesting wildlife and the likes, whereas I'm not likely to lug a 300mm
lense and SLR around with me.

 

You've hit the nail on the head. It's more important to have *some* sort
of camera and get an image than to have no camera with you at all. If
the Lumi is pocketable and reasonably spec'd then go for it.
The number of good pics I've taken is far outweighed by the ones I
missed because I didn't have a cam in my pocket.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=4720

this looks a bargain

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Steve Parry
BMW R45
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07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

My mum has a little Nikon compact. It's deeply unimpressive. And that things
hardly in the league of something with a 10x stabilised zoom...

 

Recently got a Panasonic DMC-FZ8 and am very impressed - its not
pocketable though

Nick

 

In that fine tradition of UKRM of suggesting what you have yourself
have a look at

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000PH5IWI/ref=nosim?tag=econv-1-320-21

 

Ta for that ...... ordered

--
Steve Parry
BMW R45
01 Kawasaki ZX12-R
07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

I know someone with one of those (or something very similar). It's nice and
you gain more control over what's going on *but* it's heading towards SLR
size again.

 

It is indeed.
However I failed to find anything ( at a reasonable price ) that would
give me full control (1).

I'm signing up for
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01uT189

when registrations open later this year



Steve,

the manual can be downloaded from
http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/media/dContent/mediaCentre/Manuals/
FX_S5700_S700_E.pdf



(1)
Program Aperture priority
Aperture priority
Shutter Priority
fully manual

 

Ta

--
Steve Parry
BMW R45
01 Kawasaki ZX12-R
07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

See Lumix FZ8
--
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R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
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<snip>

.... by the way what's the battery life like?


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Steve Parry
BMW R45
01 Kawasaki ZX12-R
07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

not too shabby, but I've always got a spare set in my pocket

 

I wouldn't waste my money. From what I've seen of that, and feedback
from previous course participants it's not all that. You could do just
as well, for nearly free, by joining a photo club or reading and
digesting many of the online photo guides available.
More importantly, you could do a lot of what's on the course just by
getting out there and taking pics - it's digital, it's effectively free,
learn quickly by your mistakes. Go for it.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Arrived last week and it's great .... of course as always with whatever I
buy they have a better one for the same price on sale now grrrr

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...f=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2?ie=UTF8&index=2#gallery


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Steve Parry
BMW R45
01 Kawasaki ZX12-R
07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2?ie=UTF8&index=2#gallery
<shrug>
I like it

 

Don't get me wrong, I think the s5700 is very good too

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Steve Parry
BMW R45
01 Kawasaki ZX12-R
07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650
87 Yamaha FS1
Sukida SK90PY
91 Kawasaki AR50
07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk