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/p/ can you recommend a cheap, low-end consumer camera with a fast shutter speed? I have the jitters and always end up taking blurry pictures. I don't need anything really fancy; the simpler the better, so long as I can take in-focus pictures. Nothing over $350 please. Thanks.
>> Anonymous
>>53721
No.. faster shutter speed won't help you, you don't know what you are talking about. What you probably need is a lens with large maximum aperture and less noisy sensor.
>> Anonymous
>>53723
I hope that's sarcasm, if not you need a foot to the ass.

As far as a simple, cheap solution: tripod.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>53741
NO U.

Even cheap digital cameras nowadays have very fast maximum shutter speeds. My little point & shoot goes all the way up to 1/2000th. Even if he's jittery, clear pictures should be within his grasp with shutter speeds an order of magnitude slower than that.

So, 'fast shutter speed' is not what he's looking for. What he's looking for is a camera with other attributes (namely, large maximum aperture and sensor that can operate at high ISO without choking on its own noise) that will let him *use* that fast shutter speed. Which is exactly what>>53723was saying. Although I'll grant he was kind of a dick about it.

Unfortunately, such a thing doesn't really exist in the low-end, less-than-$350 market. The widest aperture I've ever heard of in a point & shoot digital was f/2.5. Most reasonably good ones are f/2.8, which isn't too bad. The really simple ones are often worse than that, since they assume you'll just keep it in auto mode and use the flash.
>> pixle !YlHXuPBxBQ
I advise the canon powershot A640.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_a640.asp

it's around the $270-320 range. Depends on where you buy it but it most certainly won't go anywhere above the $350.

I own it and I'm happy with it.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>53744
Or the A630, for cheaper at the cost of a few megapixels you probably don't need anyway.
>> Anonymous
I just got an A630 and I'm really pleased with it. Thought I haven't had more than a few days, and I really have no other experience taking anything other than snapshots during vacations, I'd still suggest it.

You can see some of my photos at
http://zip.4chan.org/p/res/53621.html