What digital camera do you own...

[DaBeeeenster]

Just got a Casio QVR-40 this week, cheap from Dixons. I'm impressed so far. When I worked at Jessops it was obvious that a lot of Pentax and Casio models were basically the same design, so it ought to be good really.

Just need a 256mb card now....

Saracen mate, you should get an EOS-1DS. You know it makes sense..... We got one into the shop once, holding 6 grand's worth of camera in your hands is pretty frightening!

Rich :¬)

Pretty sure that's the camera the chaps I was working on the BRIT awards website with had for the show photographs. They had 4 of them

[Rys]

HP PhotoSmart 735.

My other is a Kodak DX4900 Zoom.

Rys

[Elmo]

mine's a dx4900 zooooooom too.

you copied me :/

[Alex]

Gordy - my brother has one of them too. I can get over how small they are - its one seriously funky gadget.

Ive got a fjui finepix 600 myself, got it 3 years ago today for my 18th, and its still better than average, as far as I can make out from others Ive seen...

[Rave]

Pretty sure that's the camera the chaps I was working on the BRIT awards website with had for the show photographs. They had 4 of them

Yeah, Pro photographers are nuts. The serious news guys usually have a couple of digital bodies just so they don't have to swap lenses. The most expensive camera I ever sold (I think) was an original EOS-1D. The guy just came in, checked it over, and paid the £4300 on his credit card . He didn't want a D60 as it wasn't robust enough. Nobody (in the news field at least) works with film any more, even back when a 2 megapixel Kodak modified EOS-1N or F-5 was £8k the papers could make the money back in a few months with the time and money they saved not having to process films.

The EOS-1DS is extraordinarily good, I didn't give it all that much of a test for obvious reasons but from what I saw you'd struggle to get equivalent quality from 35mm film unless you were using Velvia or Provia 100F.

I don't do much photography any more (too lazy) but I'll use film until I can't get it any more, for much the same reason as I prefer vinyl to CD- it might not be technically better but it has an intangible quality which digital can't (yet) replicate.

Rich :¬)

[Saracen]

Saracen mate, you should get an EOS-1DS. You know it makes sense..... We got one into the shop once, holding 6 grand's worth of camera in your hands is pretty frightening!

Rich :¬)

As soon as you find a way for me to acquire the funding, and convince the Domestic Finance Manager (wife) that it's justified spending that kind of wedge, I'll be at the shop doing so. But I'm not holding my breath - especially re: convincing the DFM - 'cos she was recently making noises about moving house

I don't think I ever tested the EOS-1D. I DID test the Nikon D1 though, which was the same sort of price, and have tested the EOS-D30, D60, 300D and 10D.

To be honest, though, while I use cameras for work and they do make me some money, I'm not a heavy business user and the Olympus 5050 would probably do everything I need for work. Photography is a hobby not a business for me, and if I DID have five or six grand to spend, it'd be £1000 (-ish) on the camera body and the rest on lenses and accessories.

[Saracen]

I don't do much photography any more (too lazy) but I'll use film until I can't get it any more, for much the same reason as I prefer vinyl to CD- it might not be technically better but it has an intangible quality which digital can't (yet) replicate.

Vinyl? Oh, how 70's. Never catch me doing anything as passe as that.

me uncrosses fingers behind back

That isn't really a Mitchell Electronic Reference turntable sitting on the shelf over there, and it doesn't have an SME arm and Satin moving coil cartridge, and those several hundred records aren't really there either. Honest!

[Rave]

That isn't really a Mitchell Electronic Reference turntable sitting on the shelf over there, and it doesn't have an SME arm and Satin moving coil cartridge, and those several hundred records aren't really there either. Honest!

I'm just about making do with a Bush MTT1 at the moment, it works fine except that the stylus is crud and gives nasty distortion on the inner tracks. I have a Valhalla'ed LP12 in hibernation though, mothballed until I can find a replacement for the A&R Cambridge 77 cartridge; they stopped making replacement styli a couple of years ago. Not the greatest turntable ever but the sound was exactly how I liked it. Now I've got to try and find another cartridge that sounds as good.

The pop as you drop the needle into the lead-in, the thrill of putting a perfectly exposed transparency on the lightbox for the first time....life is sweet.

Rich :¬)

[Oakey]

I have a Canon Powershot G5

[Saracen]

I'm just about making do with a Bush MTT1 at the moment,

Maybe I'm too much of a purist at heart, but that would make me worry about damage to the LP's that, while the Bush might not show it up, when you dig the Linn out and get it working again, would THEN be all too clear.

Be careful, mate.

PS. I officially envy you the Linn. Mind you, while it's arguably a better TT than the Mitchell, the Mitchell is a work of Art

PPS. I do have a Linn remote here if that counts - fully programmable job. About £350 worth, IIRC

PPPS. I think we're getting a bit off-topic

[doctor_prox]

Some cheap credit card sized one off ebay. Cost 15 quid and its 640x480, no make but its not bad for its size!

[Ant]

Casio Exilim EX-S2.. Ideal camera for sticking in your pocket ready for any random snaps!

If i was going to get another camera though, I think it would be one of the Canon Ixus models...

[RoGuE|SaBeR]

Original Canon Ixus - cant even find it on the Canon webby...

2.1 MP and the quality isn't great but it does the needful when necessary.

[Tifosi]

Canon S30 very impressed with some great manula functions

Also got an S50

The S50 is perfection it fixes all the problems with the S30 and adds all the latest software functions shame the build quality feels slightly worse and that the flash is still miles too bright.

[BUFF]

Vinyl? Oh, how 70's. Never catch me doing anything as passe as that.

me uncrosses fingers behind back

That isn't really a Mitchell Electronic Reference turntable sitting on the shelf over there, and it doesn't have an SME arm and Satin moving coil cartridge, and those several hundred records aren't really there either. Honest!

Hmm, I've got a Roksan Xerxes/RB300/Audio-Technica OC9

[joshwa]

anyone else want to vote if you haven't already?