Hi,
I need a camera that will take decent pictures and video. This is not for any sort of professional or high grade photography. My girlfriend has the Canon Powershot A460 and seems to like it. Any suggestions?
If you like the A series of Canon's then go for an A series that has optical Image Stabilization, like the older A710is (cause you can do a firmware hack on the DigicII image processing engine, that gets you a live histogram & zebra highlight over-exposure warning from the more expensive G series cams, as well as support for taking RAW images...albeit slower than a dSLR), that has many manual controls available for you to use, should you ever decide to learn to use them for more creative control.
If you like the A series of Canon's then go for an A series that has optical Image Stabilization, like the older A710is (cause you can do a firmware hack on the DigicII image processing engine, that gets you a live histogram & zebra highlight over-exposure warning from the more expensive G series cams, as well as support for taking RAW images...albeit slower than a dSLR), that has many manual controls available for you to use, should you ever decide to learn to use them for more creative control.
That's my opinion at least.So I guess there ARE no good cameras under $200?![]()
He killed the subject with the video requirements. It's not a generic inexpensive camera thread.
The Canon SD1000 is a nice solid little camera that goes for around $160 or so.
EDIT: Just noticed mgguy mentioned it. The SD1000 doesn't have IS, but it's a trade off. Review here:http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd1000-review/index.shtml
Is it so? I've seen many cameras that can take legible video. I am not needed anything even remotely approaching high quality. We're talking Youtube here.