I'm trying to decide on a camera to buy. I found two similiar: Panasonic lumix dmc-FX9s and Fuji fine pix f10, both 6MP both comparably priced. Most of my pictures are dog agility events, inside with low light, or outside with whatever, main importance would be fast action shooting, does anyone have an opinion either way on these or maybe recomend another one I have not considered?
I used a borrowed panasonic camera while I was travelling for a wee while. Didn't realise the results would be so dissapointing when I got back... All this because I was reluctant to fork out the very small amount of money that a battery charger costs in Cambodia for my 4mp finepix a405 - which takes infinitely better pictures. Neither of these cameras are new, and I have no idea how they compared price wise when they were released, but I do know my finepix wasn't greatly expensive and the pics are sharp (which is more than can be said for a lot of cameras). Edit: I forgot to mention - there's very little shutter lag on my finepix either, which can be a big problem on some cameras. Although the panasonic wasn't all to bad in that department either (the pics were just crap ) Don't take any of this as gospel though, just my experiences...the panasonic I used might have come out of a christmas cracker..
It looks like Fuji is releasing a new camera in June: Fujifilm Finepix F30 6.3MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom. I might wait and give that one a try. Plus it looks like they have improved the shutter lag: Quick response times (0.01 second shutter lag) So unless I read a bad review on that one, I might pick it up when they come out and give it a try.
Buy the Fuji F10 it is a great camera to work with and boasts an excellent batery life 500 shots. Image quality is also superb, very low noise levels upto 400iso with 800iso and 1600iso noise is evident but not overpowering. But what you really need is a DSLR for your purposes. If you can afford it the Canon350D or Nikon D50
I'm still on the wall on this question. I think I might go with fuji, now I'm trying to decide between the f30 and the s5200. Both around the same price, the 5200 has a much stronger zoom though.
Go with the Cannon. My son-in-law has one and he loves it. But, of course, money has a lot to do with it, so the best you can afford at the time, is probably the best choice. Later
ok camera decision 101 from a photograpghy student at green river community college 1.do not use digital zoom it gets rid of pixels in your image and causes bad photos 2.when purchasing a camera remember these key things 1.can i get a 1 gig memory stick for the camera this is important because 5678 mega pixel cameras use a lots of memory 2.fugifilm cameras suck and are cheap pieces of dog waste they use a fugifilm only memory stick there is no sd it uses fugis own xd memory sticks produced by fugi only and are expensive 3.ask your self what do you want the camera to do besides take basic photos 4.and don't let some sells person try to shove a differrent more expensive model down your throat thats about it
Thanks for the good info. 90% of the time the camera would be used at low light inside dog agility events taking pictures of fast moving dogs with the intention of quick stop action photography and taking as many pictures as possible in the shortest time frame(meaning multiple pictures per second)
