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Reccomend a light dig camera with great pic quality...
steveOooo
29-12-2007
i want a dig camera to take out with me into clubs to take pics for dontstayin.com - im hoping to eventually become a official spotter and then move to slr camera - get some experience with normal dig cameras.

I want one thats really slim and lightweight

looking at casio EXILIM ZOOM

weighs 125g - would like something even lighter than this if pos?
flynn
29-12-2007
If you can find one, what about the Fuji F30/F31fd? Not quite as light as the Casio (155g) but has a reputation for great image quality, especially in low-light scenarios, which will be useful if you're shooting in clubs etc. It's now been replaced by the F50, but from what I've read the F31 would probably be a better bet for what you want to do.

F31 reviewed here, and the F50 here.
sancheeez
30-12-2007
Seconded.

The Caisos are nice, I looked at them myself when I was looking for a pocket sized camera. But .... image quality from them is not up there with Fuji or Canon (or various others as well for that matter).

I ended up with a Fuji F20 so I'd go along with the F30/31 suggestion. Great little all rounders.

First review I found for the Exilim Zoom:

Flash underpowered, noisy images in shadows and over ISO 200, purple fringing, detail loss due to noise suppression, marked barrel distortion at wide end of zoom.

Doesn't sound like a good camera to be using in clubs! Crap flash and rubbish at high ISO. The F series have excellent flash performance (average for that size of camera is about 10/11 feet ..... the F series is double that) and good high ISO as well.

No point looking at extra zoom. In a dark club it'd be a waste of time unless you're using very expensive kit. Zooming over any distance in the dark with a compact is pointless.

Oh .... and using a little compact like that won't be a lot of help when switching to a dSLR I'm afraid. Using a pro-sumer (S5IS, S8000fd etc etc) might be but they're not very compact!
Mark in Essex
02-01-2008
Originally Posted by flynn:
“If you can find one, what about the Fuji F30/F31fd? Not quite as light as the Casio (155g) but has a reputation for great image quality, especially in low-light scenarios, which will be useful if you're shooting in clubs etc. It's now been replaced by the F50, but from what I've read the F31 would probably be a better bet for what you want to do.

F31 reviewed here, and the F50 here.”

I would usually recomend Canon, but they are not too good in low light, so another recomendation for that Fuji which I've heard are great in low light conditions.
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