Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:54:50 GMT, "RG" wrote:



Test it out for me. I need to get my wife a small one. She wants something
she can put in a purse. My daughter's bugging me for a small one also.

The current buzz from early reviews is excellent ergonomics and superior
images, but it's getting knocked by a focusing system that's a bit slow.
Great for landscapes and stationary subjects, not so great for action and
fast-moving subjects. Highlights are Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture
Priority, full Manual, and Multiple Scene shooting modes, fully compatible
with Nikon's Creative Lighting System, 10 mp resolution, 2.5" hi-res LCD
screen, and built-in VR. Also has an optical viewfinder, which I find
essential and is getting near impossible to find on point & shoots anymore.
And it fits easily in a jacket pocket. Street price in the low-mid $300's.
Here's a link to the brochu

http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/...0_brochure.pdf




Big question - what's the shutter lag? The wife likes pics of grandkids,
who stop for no one.

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

"RG" wrote in message
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Test it out for me. I need to get my wife a small one. She wants
something
she can put in a purse. My daughter's bugging me for a small one also.

The current buzz from early reviews is excellent ergonomics and superior
images, but it's getting knocked by a focusing system that's a bit slow.
Great for landscapes and stationary subjects, not so great for action and
fast-moving subjects. Highlights are Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture
Priority, full Manual, and Multiple Scene shooting modes, fully compatible
with Nikon's Creative Lighting System, 10 mp resolution, 2.5" hi-res LCD
screen, and built-in VR. Also has an optical viewfinder, which I find
essential and is getting near impossible to find on point & shoots
anymore. And it fits easily in a jacket pocket. Street price in the
low-mid $300's. Here's a link to the brochu

http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/...0_brochure.pdf





My wife has a Nikon Coolpix 2500. Been a good camera. But daughter has a
Pentex Optio W10 and I liked the pics so much I bought the Optio WP20. 7 MP
and great pics. Very small, and the WP is waterproof to 10' under water.
They have the non water proof with great optical zoom. Mine was $173 from
Broadway photo.

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

"John H." wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:54:50 GMT, "RG" wrote:



Test it out for me. I need to get my wife a small one. She wants
something
she can put in a purse. My daughter's bugging me for a small one also.

The current buzz from early reviews is excellent ergonomics and superior
images, but it's getting knocked by a focusing system that's a bit slow.
Great for landscapes and stationary subjects, not so great for action and
fast-moving subjects. Highlights are Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture
Priority, full Manual, and Multiple Scene shooting modes, fully compatible
with Nikon's Creative Lighting System, 10 mp resolution, 2.5" hi-res LCD
screen, and built-in VR. Also has an optical viewfinder, which I find
essential and is getting near impossible to find on point & shoots
anymore.
And it fits easily in a jacket pocket. Street price in the low-mid
$300's.
Here's a link to the brochu

http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/...0_brochure.pdf




Big question - what's the shutter lag? The wife likes pics of grandkids,
who stop for no one.

The Optio I wrote about earlier has a 5 pic sport mode. Shoots 5 pics in a
couple of seconds.

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

Big question - what's the shutter lag? The wife likes pics of grandkids,
who stop for no one.

Shutter lag is on par with other point & shoots, which is to say that it
wouldn't be the camera of choice for shooting fast-moving munchkins. You
already have the proper camera for that job. I don't think any P&S would
shine in that situation. I see it as a reasonably capable camera whose main
attraction is its ease of portability, when dragging around a full-sized
DSLR would be inappropriate or undesirable. I have a 4mp Olympus Stylus 410
that takes very nice photos and is weather resistant. But I rarely use it,
and one of the reasons is because it is so different in ergonomics and logic
than my D70 or D200. I'm thinking a Nikon P&S would at least have Nikon
genetics and therefore would be more intuitive and in synch with the cameras
I primarily shoot with.

I have a niece and nephew ages 14 and 16 that I'm flying out to Phoenix
later this summer for a week's vacation. We'll be spending a bit of time
touring the state. I'm thinking of giving them the Oly when they get here
and letting them take it home with them. Hence, the reason for thinking of
a replacement ala the Coolpix P5000. But I need to get my hands on one in
the store to see if I like the way it shoots. The two complaints that have
consistently come up in the reviews is the inability to shoot raw (which I
find unfortunate as I mostly shoot raw these days), and focusing speed that
is middle of the pack at best. Every review has commented on how it's about
the best handling P&S ever tested, that the build quality is well beyond its
price point, and that the output is unbelievably good as long as you're
shooting at ISO 400 or less. Its closest competitor is the Canon PowerShot
G7, which is larger, heavier, and more expensive.

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:52:37 GMT, "RG" wrote:

I have a 4mp Olympus Stylus 410
that takes very nice photos and is weather resistant. But I rarely use it,
and one of the reasons is because it is so different in ergonomics and logic
than my D70 or D200. I'm thinking a Nikon P&S would at least have Nikon
genetics and therefore would be more intuitive and in synch with the cameras
I primarily shoot with.

That is so true.

I don't like the D50 that I have because it's counter intuitive to my
Olympus cameras. I have a little Canon something or other p&s that I
take around in the truck and have the same problem - it seems like the
controls are all backwards. Curiously, the Hasselblad is pretty
straight forward and even though I haven't used it much outdoors, it's
easy to use.

Oly also did a rather odd thing with the E-500 - they changed some of
the function names - why they did that I don't know. But you can
figure it out pretty quickly as compared to fumbling around with the
D50.

You would think they would standardize certain controls across the
industry wouldn't you?

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:52:37 GMT, "RG" wrote:

I have a 4mp Olympus Stylus 410
that takes very nice photos and is weather resistant. But I rarely use it,
and one of the reasons is because it is so different in ergonomics and logic
than my D70 or D200. I'm thinking a Nikon P&S would at least have Nikon
genetics and therefore would be more intuitive and in synch with the cameras
I primarily shoot with.

That is so true.

I don't like the D50 that I have because it's counter intuitive to my
Olympus cameras. I have a little Canon something or other p&s that I
take around in the truck and have the same problem - it seems like the
controls are all backwards. Curiously, the Hasselblad is pretty
straight forward and even though I haven't used it much outdoors, it's
easy to use.

Oly also did a rather odd thing with the E-500 - they changed some of
the function names - why they did that I don't know. But you can
figure it out pretty quickly as compared to fumbling around with the
D50.

You would think they would standardize certain controls across the
industry wouldn't you?



I bought a Canon A710 Powershot as a gift for my wife, and both of us
really like it. It has very little shutter lag, a nice optical zoom
lens, high quality images, easy controls, and a really large LCD screen
on the backside, plus the usual viewfinder.

Two interesting boat tests this week......
 

You would think they would standardize certain controls across the
industry wouldn't you?


Well, that's the beautiful thing about standards...there's so many to choose
from!

I ran into the same issue recently when I was helping a friend set up a new
surround sound system. I've had nothing but various Yamaha receivers and
integrated amps since abut the mid-80's. He bought Pioneer. It's like the
manual was written in a different language. It's that corporate design DNA
I alluded to in my previous post.