Well, my Olympus (C-770 ultra zoom) crapped out, and it'll cost $165 to fix it. I'd rather have a smaller camera anyway, so I'm just going to get a new one. Where my old camera was more for hobby shooting, the new one will be needed for work, and thus must accept magnetic wide angle lenses (I don't think this narrows it down too much), my c-770 could only take filters, not lenses.

Requirements:

-Compact, realistic pocket-sized
-Not much more than $300, preferably less
-Doesn't need full manual controls, but should have aperture priority and shutter speed priority, and a good selection of shooting modes (low light, indoor, etc)
-not too laggy

Thats pretty much it. Something known for longevity/reliability would be nice.
Also, it should preferably be something carried by normal stores so I can return it if it doesn't pan out.

TIA

 

warranty gone?
id suggest canon sd1000
you can find them for $150 or under these days

 

yeah, was a 1 year warranty and I bought it in winter 04/05

:edit: that cannon looks nice, but doesn't have shutter/aperture priority. :hs: Edit again: noob question, but without aperture or speed priority, is it still possible to go into the menu and tell the thing to give you a long exposure? My understanding is that this is what shutter priority means, but maybe I'm missing something.

 

I've been thinking about getting the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 has Aperture and shutter priority. it's about 2 years old now so the noise level at anything above iso200 is super shitty but other wise it should be good otherwise.

I'm trying to budget my december spending so I'm not sure if I'll get it...

 

short answer: yes, you can set a long exposure up to 15 secs

 

ok, what the hell is shutter & ap priority then?

 

The canon shutter speeds are 1 sec., 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5, 10, 15 I think. I was looking at the 1000 when I thought I lost my 400.

 

hmmm... if you don't know what they do then why do you need it?

shutter priority means you can change the shutter speed and the camera will adjust the aperture to get a correct exposure.

guess what aperture priority does.

 

Right, thats what I thought... and I used it (or something very similar :thinking: ) all the time on my old camera... I just don't know the term.

And after reading a bunch of reviews, it sounds like the sd1000 has pretty major noise on indoor/low light shots. Most of my work-related photos are indoors, so that could be a problem. Other suggestions?

 

The new Canon G9 is awesome for a point-and-shoot. It may be alittle bit expensive for you though.

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