camera recs?

[jaina]

Alas, our camera has gone to the Great Electronics Pile in the sky-- it did not survive its fateful fall to a freezing Philadephia sidewalk. :( And we definitely need to buy a new one before we go to New Zealand in six weeks!

So I thought I would ask you, dear flist, if anyone has any camera recommendations. We would really like something that can take good pics under convention conditions (most of our hall costume D*C pics turned out grainy and not-great quality). Bonus points for something that's small and not insanely expensive.

Comments

[rhynndavrie.livejournal.com]

Well we have a little Canon PowerShot SD1000 that I used for all of our pictures both at comic-con and for my trip to Belgium. They are at http://www.starfyreenchantment.com/CC08/CC08.html and http://www.starfyreenchantment.com/Belgium08/Belgium08.html Each pic is a link to a larger picture, comic-con pics have only been edited for size. Only the first 20 of the belgium pics can be clicked on to see the full image in all it's hugeness. It's still a work in progress getting them all uploaded. That should give you a fairly wide sampling of how it does under different situations. The one thing I will say about the little power shot is with the flash off it cycles from pic to pic very very fast which is extremely nice for hall pics as you are running from place to place.

On the other hand, I'm not particularly pleased with it's ability in lower light situations, namely panels at cons, so after a bit of research I think the next camera we are getting will be the Canon XSi. I just don't think the point and shoots have the image sensor needed to take a nice low light pic and the XSi has great reviews as a good entry level SLR.

I guess long story short, you can't do wrong with a canon or a nikon. =)

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Boy, lots of recs for Canon! That's good to know about the low-light thing...because that has been a problem we've had with previous cameras.