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| My trusty Minolta 35mm died last fall and today I finally broke down to buy another boat camera. After reading the reviews and checking my finances I decided to get a Canon Powershot A590 with a 1GB card. About $160 to the door.
What do you use? Any suggestions for a guy new to digitals.
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http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=41... |
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| Canon Powershot is a good camera for what you are wanting to do. I personally use a Nikon D70s. The canon is more "point and shoot" but probably take BETTER pictures for you then your old minolta and in the long run will save you money. NO Film costs and just make prints of the photos you want PLUS you can share the photos real easy through e-mail and even here on MuskieFirst! |
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| Canon Powershot is great, it takes quality pictures anytime of year in any kind of weather. Overall great performance. |
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| I use a Nikon D50, which they quit producing recently. I read an article somewhere that said Canon and Nikon are pretty much the only camera companies making money right now. Both make great cameras. I'd suggest you read the manual thoroughly, as there are many different settings you can tweak to get better resullts than what setting the camera to "Auto" can sometimes give you. Learn about and see if you can adjust the Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO, as those three settings can "make or break" a photo. Good luck. |
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Location: north west wisconsin | i use a cannon 570is and am really happy with the picture quality it takes:
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/floydss1/Picture143.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/floydss1/Picture138.jpg
a couple from my front yard
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Location: Land of the Musky | Fuji E550. I pick them up on eBay for about $40-$60. I have 3 rihgt now. They take great pictures adn at $40-$60 they are almost disposable... Plug and play too. |
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| I have the Cannon Power Shot A640, this is the best camera I have owned. I use it for the videos you see on this site and all of my website and advertising photography. I have had it for about a year now and once you learn some of the extra features it will do everything you could want from a point and shoot.
My previous Power Shot got immersed in water in the boat and the flash stopped working. I just got an Aquapac to protect the A640. Check out the links for more info.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonA640/
http://www.waterproofcases.net/waterproof-camera-cases.html
http://www.aquapac.net/
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Location: Pound, WI | Cheap Sony digitals.....I have 3 or 4.
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| I'm thinking about the Vivtar 6200w which is waterproof to 30ft and has 6mp clarity. I ruined my last camera when it started raining one day out last year and want to get something that can handle the elements. Anyone hear anything about these? |
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| I have an Olympus that is also water proof up to 30ft. It is also shock proof up to 10ft, so when you bang it up against the boat trying to get it out fast, it keeps working. Takes great pictures and video. A little pricy but worth the money. |
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| Hey Blacksheep, which model is it? |
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| I have the same camera Blacksheep is referring to. SWEET! The underwater shots it takes are awesome, and the above water shots are also great. Well worth the money. The only qualm I have is on occasion, night shots turn out blurry so make sure you look at the LCD screen carefully because usually it just takes another photo to get them "un-blurry."
Olympus Stylus 770SW. Can drop it 5', take it down 30', freeze it to 14 Fahrenheit. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Another vote for the Olympus Stylus 720/730/770. You can get them on ebay from "olympusauctions" or something like that. You can go through Olympus' home page, and there's a link to their ebay store. They sell refurbished cameras on there...but....with FULL warantee, new boxes, software, cables, etc. I've bought two of them from there, and it's top notch all the way. They shipped next day direct from Olympus USA. And the 720 being the oldest, and not widely available, you can get them on there for like $130. The 770 goes for maybe $220-$250. |
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Location: Michigan | I like my Nikon D2H with an 8GB card 24 to 120mm lens. Raw files and then photoshop. But them what do I know? |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Do you archive in RAW too?
I used to shoot in RAW on my A100, but the storage got to be burdensome, and I don't PS too extensively beyond brightness and contrast, and my workflow was just too large to make RAW worth it to me. I shoot just plain ol' JPEG now. I thought I was slacking off forsaking the workability of RAW, but come to find out most wildlife pros shoot in JPEG, and the portrait/landscape guys shoot more in RAW. I'm a wildlife guy. |
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