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best cheap PAS? Anonymous
i need a new PAS, at least 5mp+, maybe even one of the 10 or 12mpixel ones

which one should i get? must get decent pictures AND be good value for price

i was thinking maybe one of this years canons? the ugly ones with stripes?!
>> Anonymous
im gonna use ít to take pics of my cat, so close range pics, lots of them
>> Anonymous
high end Canon A-series
>> Anonymous
Low end Canon A-series.
>> Anonymous
Nikon L10
>> Anonymous
kitty!
>> Anonymous
>>192253

Doggy!
>> Jesus !1EQ.kCAg9c
>>192255
Ur doin it wrong.
>> Anonymous
>>192255
Doggy style!
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
as much as a fanboy I am for nikon, I say get a canon a series.
>> Anonymous
For point and shoots, Canon is the only way to go I believe. All other cameras have poor image quality or fucked up noise reduction.
>> Alabama !0okrDnkUYI
I'm pretty sure I'm the one who started that Canon A series "meme", since I used the wording "The answer to this is always Canon A series".

Maybe it's time for more details
The Canon As:
-mostly have full manual focus/aperture/exposure.
-are among the cheaper full manuals you're likely to find.
-are built tough enough to survive a drop better than most others.
-take AA batteries.
-have the usual Canon reliability in automatic mode: fewer motion blurred/overexposed/underexposed/out of focus shots than the competition.
-have hackable firmware if they use the Digic II or III ASIC chips.
-are fast enough to capture your niece walking up the aisle at graduation, rather than the back of the next student's head.
-have LCDs you can see in daylight.
-inspire love in their owners bordering on creepy.

However, they also have the usual Canon "smoothness" where the images seem slightly out of focus.

If you want sharper focus, certain Sony and Panasonic models outperform Canon. But you'll have to learn to keep the focal length longer than the automatic setting wants. Otherwise your depth of field will be too shallow to take advantage of those sharp lenses.

If you want saturated color, Fuji emphasizes that.

If you want pocket size, Casio tends to be the smallest.

I don't want to ignore Nikon, but I can't think of anything in particular to recommend it.

pbase and flickr will show you how your model does in automatic mode. You'll have to find a good review to see how it performs for a trained user. (Those sharp Sonys, for example, don't look sharp at all on pbase.)

One thing I find frustrating is when the photo looks very different from the pre-shot image in your LCD. I find Olympus especially offensive in this regard, and will probably never buy another one.

Flame on.
>> Anonymous
>>192359
>>-inspire love in their owners bordering on creepy.

Have I told you that I've cummed on my G9 before? And it still works!!
>> Anonymous
>>192359
>But you'll have to learn to keep the focal length longer than the automatic setting wants. Otherwise your depth of field will be too shallow to take advantage of those sharp lenses.

Lol wut?

A note on Panasonic small-sensor cameras from a user of one: If you will be shooting raw, they're probably the best you can in the category. If not, they're not to be advised, and don't buy a model that won't record raw. The lenses and bodies are very good, but the JPEG processing built into their firmware is not good at all. The noise reduction on all models is bad and too strong and at least on mine, a DMC-FZ8, the firmware tends to oversaturate greens.

(Wikipedia "raw file" if you don't know what that is.)
>> Anonymous
>>192371
Yeah. I shouldn't have called it depth of field. I guess I won't delete it since you 2 have cited the message. You do get better results with longer lengths, though.