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jplinville · #13 08-31-2012, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

We've used several Canon P&S cameras with very good success. The distortion is minimal under most conditions and the camera can take photos that will be accepted by some of the major food photography sites. It's limited in the capability to gather sufficient light indoors and it's limited in the depth of field where the background needs to be blurred.

For $150. it's an unbelievable value and good for 98% of the folks who need digital photography.

I loathe spending $1K on the DSLR to get some slightly improved capabilities...........but that's the nature of photography. You pay significantly more to get incremental improvements.

I need to make a correction here...I thought the old camera was a Vivatar, but it's a Minolta. The Vivatar is the older first digital I bought, which I gave to the kids to use for taking pictures for school projects and for when they are out and about.

The distortion that was pointed out on the helmets was zoomed in from about 110' away. Being that far away, and that being the worse distortion in an action shot...Let's just say that I'm more than happy with the results for the cost.

Old camera Introduction price of $399 nine years ago

New camera Introduction price of $279 last year

The old one served us well, and will continue to serve us as my wife's purse camera. The Nikon is the size of a medium SLR, and doesn't carry well as a pocket camera...unless you have VERY large pockets.

One of the major selling points to me was the ability to grab batteries anywhere...it uses normal AA batteries. I picked up some rechargeable batteries for it. But, just in case, I can go to the local corner store and pick up replacements if I forgot to charge them before leaving the house. That's happened before to me, but that's another story for another day.