Help to choose digicam
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I need to pick up digicam as a present for my father in law who is 70. I am amateur photographer for many decades and know exactly what I need from camera. Here however is different story and criteria totally different to my own. I guess main thing it has to be easy to use – basically point and shoot. Controls have to be as little as possible in number and buttons need to be bigger. Manual control not important at all as
well as optical viewfinder. Screen, however should be as big as possible. Moderate zoom range is enough (3, 4 max) and quality of pictures not that critical either – most what they will do is 10x15.
So I love to hear from people who have very little or no previous photo experience, who are roughly similar age bracket and who preferably have tried more then one digicam.
Thanks
Serg
Reply By: Oldsquizzy (Kununurra) - Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 at 00:54
Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 at 00:54
Have a canon mvx460. easy to use point and shoot, Is pictbridge compliant. Optical zoom is 20 and digital is 80. Records pictures to a 2 gig sd card. records video to card or to tape.Comes with remote control as
well.
One of the hints the people at canon gave me was to put it in a sealed plastic bag when in hot areas. Reason they gave me was car airconditioning kept it cold in car and when you get out into the heat condensation formed on camera and caused problems.
Reason I was able to ask was had an early model canon slingshot and the lcd screen went under warranty. Whilst I was talking to the people who repair them asked them about an easy to use video cam. this is what they came up with and a fair bit of useful advice.
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