My wife takes great pictures, especially given that she's been using a Kodak DC4800 for the past few years.
We have almost 10,000 pictures from that camera - a 3 megapixel clunky item that recently lost it's ability to retain the time and date (very annoying). To cap it off, the strap on it recently broke as well. It also had exceptionally slow response time, meaning that it took a while between pressing the button and the picture getting snapped.
With her birthday coming up recently I thought it would be a good time to upgrade her camera rig. I looked at the Canon s50 and the Nikon 7900 - two point and shoot cameras with high resolution image capture, a slew of "image intelligence" features and a compact body.
My first digital camera was a Nikon and I liked the fact that the 7900 was a 7 megapixel (compared to Canon's 5 megapixel). A few other items in the Nikon's favor was a "blurry picture" warning, in camera red eye reduction and a great price (sub $400) at onecall.com.
The camera itself it tiny - smaller than it looks in photos. The response is very fast and, in yet another improvement over the Kodak, it has a built-in lens cap.
The camera uses an SD card, but frankly it's best to just plug in the USB 2.0 cable to the Mac/PC to get your pcitures over. a 512Mb SD card runs about $50 in the right places these days.
It also takes movies in Quicktime (MOV) format at 640x480, with sound. Nice touch.
It takes a proprietary battery and it comes with a re-charger. A second battery would be nice but the battery seems very long as is.
There is a VERY extensive review here.
Net net - great camera.
has your wife tried infrared photography with her dc4800? i've got one and was wanting to try that but wasn't sure if it works well enough to buy the filters for it.
Posted by: nancie | September 23, 2005 at 10:27 AM