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-Ever- 09-17-2004 09:32 PM

Digital Camera- What's the best, smallest digicam?
 
So my Canon S40 broke about a half year ago. Sence before this accident though, I've been looking for something smaller. I frequent DPReview.com and am yet to find a really small camera that can take 'acceptable' pictures. I figured it might be impossible to go so small and still retain quality, however a guy at Circuit City said that new technology is coming out that involves "vertical lenses" that are helping the super-slim cameras take good pictures.

So do I need to wait longer for a camera to come out or is there a decent camera out there that I'm missing? I really like the size of the Sony T-something, the really thin one, but I've heard bad things with it's flash and overall image quality. I like the quality of the Canon S400 and S500 but it's a little too big for what I want.

I'm getting antsy here but don't want to wind up with a slim POS if possible. I'm basically looking for a camera that can take decent scenery pictures, as well as good people-pictures. Nothing professional, but I'm coming from an S40 that I liked so I'm worried that I'll be unhappy with the picture quality

Edit: I'm not trying to find the smallest camera for the cheapest price. If anything I plan to spend a lot. I'm trying to find out if there's a very small camera (Smaller than the Canon S500's) that can put up any kind of competition.

Thanks for any info guys.
-T

Cynthetiq 09-18-2004 05:20 AM

about 2 months ago Qualcomm releases specs on a 6mp chipset that will be used for cellphones....

use that information to extrapolate that the camera market will need to do something competitive in the next 6 months to 1 year.

-Ever- 09-20-2004 06:26 PM

6mp cellphones huh? Pretty interesting to hear. Surprised I haven't heard anything yet about the tech being used in small Sonys and Canons.

Bump for any other comments.
-T

stephthegeek 09-24-2004 07:20 AM

I had a Casio Exilim M2 and loved it for its small size... I had a case that you could flip up the flap and take pictures from in the case almost instantly. It was a 2MP, nothing stellar, but perfectly acceptable. I've heard good things about some of the more recent Exilims though... Z3 is it?

crewsor 09-29-2004 01:01 PM

I was looking for the same thing. The smallest inexpensive camera of quality I found was the Sony U series. Only 2 meg. But fairly inexpensive. Around 200.00.


Link


http://www.dpreview.com/news/0305/so...-angle-001.jpg

-Ever- 09-29-2004 01:41 PM

Thanks for the info guys. I'm going to edit my original post though, I think some were confused.

abel 10-14-2004 08:27 AM

id just upgrade to a Canon s60... that line of the S series offers full manual controls. i have a s400 (and a larger dslr) i am sorry i didnt get a small cam that could handle manually.

darkness1162 10-24-2004 07:04 PM

Realtively cheap, slimmer than the S500 series, and a great camera is the Canon SD110. I have one and love it. Easy to use.

clarksditch 10-27-2004 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkness1162
Realtively cheap, slimmer than the S500 series, and a great camera is the Canon SD110. I have one and love it. Easy to use.

i agree w/ darkeness. especially if you're already familiar w/ the canon os & image quality. plus w/ the sd110 you get some zoom (2x). not bad for such a little point/shoot w/ 3.2Mpix

-Ever- 10-27-2004 09:59 AM

Have you guys seen the SD20 yet? It's a updated version of the SD10 that people didn't like too much (sd20 was released just a month ago.)

5 megapix and it's only .7 thick! No viewfinder but I think I can get along with that as long as battery power doesn't die *too* quickly, and I don't think I ever used the viewfinder on my other digicam anyways.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/spec...canon_sd20.asp
Just waiting to read a few more reviews.

-T

bal8664 11-06-2004 08:16 AM

heres some more revies of it for you

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/sd20.html
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/ca...ew/index.shtml

I'd also look into the sony DSC-P150 which is slightly larger but is 7 megapixels and has nice image quality.

Bossnass 11-06-2004 12:00 PM

I'm not much of a photographer, but I've always been happy borrowing my buddies diamage x. There is a somewhat extensive Dimage X series, all of them are quite slim.
I'd take a look if I was in the market for a new small digital.

http://konicaminolta.com/products/co...camera/dimage/
in general

http://konicaminolta.com/products/co...x50/index.html
in particular

herkules 11-15-2004 09:11 PM

I've had a Casio Exilim for about 2 years but it just crapped out and Casio wanted $150 to repair it which is too much ...I ended up getting another on e-bay for half that. Its the smallest digicam that I've seen which is great but I'm not happy about the cost of it failing like that.

jaded 11-16-2004 11:53 PM

definitely the casio exilim, chic and the size of a credit card. my parents have one and they love it. fits right in your pocket. have seen negative online reviews about the quality of the pictures though.

Ruse 11-18-2004 05:13 PM

Im in the market also, a few of the ones Ive been looking at are the Casio Exilim Ex-Z50, Canon S500 and the Sony W1... might be worth your while to do a little reading on them though - Ive heard the least complaints about the sony but Im still not quite sold.

-Ever- 11-18-2004 10:31 PM

Can't really talk now, but I did tons of research and wound up getting the Canon SD300. Thanks for all the info guys.

T

FngKestrel 11-19-2004 12:38 AM

Make sure you post some pics so we can see how the quality is overall.


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