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Which one ?

  • 16-12-2004 7:48am
    #1
    zokrez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    Hi I am trying to decide on which Canon Ixus 5mp camera to buy:

    In the red corner: Ixus 500
    In the blue corner: Ixus i5

    Quality of photos would be my only criteria. Any views please. :confused:


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  • #2
    Jefferson Darcy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Jefferson Darcy


    I'm not sure where you plan to shoot but for a general purpose cam (holidays, portraits, parties, etc) go with the 500. The smaller i5 has a fixed lens which will limit your flexibility with compositions. The bigger Ixus is sure to have far more creative modes where the smaller one will be very much a basic P&S. In fact the i5 looks to be very much Canon's take on the fashion/party cameras that Olympus and Sony have released as late - fashion colours, small form factor, etc whereas the normal Ixus has a great history of being small while still taking fantastic photos.

    I know you're choosing between those two but if you're keen to explore photography a bit more I'd urge you to go for the slightly larger S range. The S50 or S60 has full manual control which means proper M, AV and TV modes. I've been using an S50 for a few years as a backup to SLR and its great though not as pocketable as the Ixus models.


  • #3
    Furp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭Furp


    If you where willing to go to €499.95 euro lots of places are selling the Fujifilm S7000 which has 6X Optical zoom 35-210mm & Super CCD Pixel Technology, this type of camera will give you a lot of options, and good picture quaility alhtough I can't vouch personally although I'm picking up a Nikon Coolpix 8800 in a few days which has a 10x zoom VR technology and an 8 megapixel image.

    Reviews are here:
    http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/s7000.html
    http://www.megapixel.net/cgi-bin/fs_loader.pl?p=http%3A//www.megapixel.net/reviews/fuji-s7000/s7000-gen.html

    Just one of the camera shops in Dublin selling the s7000 for that price:
    http://www.cameraexchange.ie/Digital Cameras (PRICES).htm#fuji


  • #4
    norbert64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭norbert64


    Hey ppl, i'm in a similar dilemma myself. Which of these would be the better buy, or can you suggest something else.

    My preffered specs would be a 4 MP, digital camera, with XD card capability, and movie and sound capture. I know i'm not going to get cinema quality movies here, but any advice for a decent camera with good movie capture capabilities. I only want the camera for regular pix now, holidays, birthdays, special occassions, down the pub with the mates.
    I have a budget of 250, with the possibility of an Xtra 120 from my sister. Kind of thinking of it as a present for the folks that we will prolly end up using more anyway.

    I've been looking @ the following 3.

    Sony Cybershot P43-4
    Polaroid PDC4355
    FUJI Finepix A340

    All seemingly good value in Argos, so opinions please. I aint set on any of these. You give me a better option i will gladly cease it. BTW i'd rather not buy off the net so, i'd be purchasing the camera in the Dublin, Meath area.

    Thanx in advance


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