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Whick one to pick Anonymous
Dear /p/
I have a friend that wants to buy a camera
He wants to take photos in generally poorly lit social at night, aka friends house

Canon PowerShot SD750
or
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3K

Help him choose to become an hero
Pic unrelated, some crazy woman at an eatery with poorly applied makeup
>> Anonymous
buy a shitty one with a big flash
>> Anonymous
>>71272
Dead set on either one of the two, was hoping ac would have an opinion
>> Anonymous
>>71274
I'm not ac but if I was to pick from those two it'd have to be the Panasonic: Image stabilised 28-280mm (equiv) lens versus the Canon's weedy 35-105mm (equiv)? No contest.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>71274
Er. Okay. Um.

Well, the PowerShot has an f/2.8 max aperture, which will gather more light than the f/3.3 lens on the Lumix, although it's not even a full stop difference. I don't know which one gives you better high-ISO performance because I can't find any reference images for the TZ3K anywhere (apparently not a single damn person on Flickr is using one).

Really, if he's not using an SLR, poorly lit social events are gonna be using-the-onboard-flash territory, so it doesn't much matter which camera he picks. So I guess I'd say go for the Canon, for no real reason other than that I'm a Canon fanboy.

If he really wants to work at it, he could go the Strobist route and pick up a nice off-camera flash, light stand, umbrella reflector, and slave flash trigger, then he can get good light from that triggered by the on-camera flash. But I'm guessing, if he's looking at these two cameras, he's not looking to put that much effort into it.
>> Anonymous
>>71281

Hey dont worry Slater. In times of need on /p/ your bound to turn up with a good old helping of copy pasta advice.
>> Anonymous
>>71283
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
>> Anonymous
>>71281
Thanks you
>> ac
On the other hand, the Panasonic has a slightly bigger sensor (1/2.35" vs. 1/2.5") and optical image stabilization, both of which will help in low light. So maybe the Panasonic's better.

Man, why do people keep asking me for help? I'm completely incompetent.