[bhara]

panasonic lumixs are great

[flyingcod]

^ what they all said, I have the Lumix FZ7 (two years old now, but still learning how to use it)

fc

[steve-o]

mums got a lumix... not sure what model it is but I'll find out when shes in the office next

unfortunately I dont know a great deal about what point and shoot models are out now, but the big players in the game are canon, nikon, sony & panasonic, canon's point and shoots seem to take quite a nice picture.

my advice would be to goto a camera store, find the ones in your price range from each brand, then test them all out at once, eg take the same kind of photo in each one to compare the photo quality they all do, then see which one feels and looks the best to you and which ones menus look better for you.

then go home and goto www.dpreview.com and read the reviews of the models you're considering.

me personally, I'm nikon biast, so I'll always recommend them, but if I was to buy a point and shoot I'd prob either get a nikon or canon, they're just the norm when it comes to photography hehe

[pokey27]

Well as i said steve its only really for taking pics for ebay and what not so would be stupid for me to splash alot of money on one.Don't really wanna spend more than £90-£150 thats why that sony looked like a good buy and i'd think it should be able to cope with what i ask of it.
Cheers for the imput and advice ill have another look at them lumix then decide am sure both would be ok with similiar performance as there in the same kinda price bracket and spec

[manus]

The queue-y bit at the photo counter upstairs in the big boots in Leeds seems to have a bargainous compact camera every other weekend when I go to get films processed, so it might be worth having a look there if you are in Leeds.

If I finish a film tomorrow, I'll drop by and see what's there.

[steve-o]

pokey def check out the website I linked, their reviews are really indepth and cover almost every camera thats been produced

the main thing for stuff like ebay is to have good lighting
I said ages ago in my collection thread that I'd get around to doing a tutorial for taking photos of shoes on a budget... might have to get that happening again

[pokey27]

Will do and thanks for your help/info steve
I sorted out the bad lighting thing ..its basically only close ups my camera struggles (like taking pics of codes/writing on tongues,smaller items)
No real rush to get one as im getting by with what i got it was mainly the fact that the sales are on everywhere right now so best time to get one and save some wedge if i'd only be buying one anyways.

[steve-o]

are you switching the camera to macro mode? hehe

also better to illuminate something small with a lamp than with the camera flash

[Jumanji84]

My camera is pretty fooked too check this out, does this 9 out of 10 times. Im looking for the same type of use as you are pokey... couple of ebay pics trainers maybe a hill or tree or whatever folk take photos of these days.

[GeeBee]

+1 for the Panasonic Lumix
Had a DMC-FZ7 for about three years ago and very happy with it.

[ez-1]

+1 for Panasonic. I got my GF1 some months ago and it is fucking awesome.
If you want a cheap camera I could sell one of my old ones. Fujifilm FinePix S5700 does really good closeups. Let me know if you are interested.

[flyingcod]

GB - do you take most of your pics in simple mode or can you do arty farty stuff with ya looomix? Any tipss?

I'm still working out how to use mine properly.

fc can take a pic of traffic at night, all wavey like