Wow beautiful photos thanks for sharing. You live with such a pretty view from your window!!
Demonlawyer: Aren't those cameras like £500-600
I'm looking into buying a digital camera actually. The Canon Powershot A series and the Fuji Finepix F series cameras seem very good. The latest versions of either (Powershot a620 and Fuji F11 ) can be found for £250 or less I think. But the ones just before the latest versions that I'm looking at are less than £190 and still take very good pictures.
I guess an SLR would be good for absolutely perfect quality but once you get used to the settings of a digital camera you can still get exceptional photos. Plus its a big bonus you can just take as many shots as you like to get that 'perfect' shot and view each one without paying for printing. Its also so much easier to edit afterwards on a computer which can be fun.
There are still disadvantages compared to SLR of course. SLR will outperform in intense conditions probably and for light sensitivity. A digital camera in this instance might require a bit of editing after if you really want to. But if you look at sample pics online for some of the low end compact digital cameras and don't like them and are willing to spend so much you could pay a bit more for a higher end digital that has all the versatility and can go further up in image size/light sensitivity etc. Or you could stick to SLR, depends how much you'd like to have the whole versatility aspect.
But unless you're a professional photographer you will probably be happy with the results, and usually you are only printing photos at a small size so then any blemishes are less noticeable.
I decided to try and get a digicam because with film SLR, I never quite know what I'm going to end up with once it comes out the print shop and I like how with digicams you can see it right there and then. So if you go abroad and aren't going to develop everything until you get home, you can have a better idea that the pic you took is at least visible (and not pitch black or something due to Flash not having enough range from where you were standing etc.) and you can have another go whereas when at home its difficult to go back to that spot to retake the shot. Its also good how you can just take a few random shots and get them printed right away and not have to wait until you use up the whole roll of film.
But there are advantages and disadvantages either way between digicams and film cameras.
But if you're looking for something thats versatile, simply takes decent pics and is cheap then compact digital cameras might do you well.
If you do look into digital cameras, heres two places that have been very valuable to me in my research:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/
http://www.dpreview.com/ (and the forums there are helpful if you have questions)
(Note: The a620 and a610 Canon Powershot cameras are almost exactly the same just that the a620 can go up to 7 megapixels as opposed to 5 so if there is no sample pics/full review for one, read the review for the other and it'll be the same. As an aside I'm told by some that 5mp takes great pics and 7mp isnt that necessary unless you really must have a larger size pic (I read if you print out a 8mp pic it is A3 paper size or bigger!) so that extra cost could be saved for paying for a nice big memory card instead to store your photos on whilst out and about )
I know I went on alot but I've been researching what digital camera to buy for the past 2 months and I might aswell unload all this tiring info somewhere!! (Theres still many cameras I didnt look at like Kodak and Sony but whenever I did I kept thinking back to Canon and Fuji anyway.... theres just too many models out there to choose from!)
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