Canon SD850 IS vs Sony W80

clb

What do you guys think

W80 is like boosted with TONS of features...like fish lens filter, isolated colour filter, ISO up to 3200...WOW...
SD850...good pic quality, standard SDs, but i heard it's best to stay below ISO 800 when taking pix...

any comments?

dim light picture taking

maanmo

i think the advantage of the sony w80 is price
$200 at visions and another place  ( staples ?)
according to ads a few weeks ago,
one chooses w80 for its low price

the canon sd850 is one of the top 10 compact cameras  ranked by
pcworld
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139659/article.html

you are interested in dim light picture taking too?
if you decided to buy a camera at the price range equal to this canon sd850,
i would check out the reviews of the 10 compact camera and compare
their low light performance
Canon ads point out particularly that  better low light sensitivity is its
2007 models outstanding features.

but its hard to compared, if low light is important to you you have to read
the reviews carefully

i recall reading a review that says an earlier model of fujifilm ( f30 ??)
has great low light sensitivity, but the latest
model (f50 ? the top model in pcworld's ranking of top 10 compacts )
  has scaled back its low light power in favour of more megapixels

  but all these reviews have left me walking in circles in the dark
  even the most low light sensitive cameras wont help me find an exit

clb

so I went to best buy to play with the W80...and yes, just like every other reviews say...their menu is very unintuitive...heck, you'd think they have a trash button but no...u hafta go through the menu settings to delete a picture.

SD850.....and SD870 is very similar and I like the layout of buttons on the 870 better but one thing I found out when I saw the actual thing. It looks as if it's made out of plastic!   There were dents on the camera casing! Oh my...I'm surprised for a camera that costs ~350, its casing is made out of plastic.

So now....I'm like   in terms of what camera I want now........
The Nikon S51 seems nice but then it's only a 3x zoom

I don't like fuji because it uses xD cards..and we all know those cards are expensive

kisstherain

I have a Fuji fd50 and it's SD card ok!

maldini

Why not look at the W90 which has 8meg? The SD850 has 8megs, 4x zoom and iso1600.
The SD950 has 12meg, a sturdy titanium case, but is more expensive.

[ 本帖最後由 maldini 於 2007-12-24 02:56 編輯 ]

maanmo

boxing day sales time, many great cameras ,

abut xd cards, its the only cards i know,
expensive ?  it a very small matter,

1 year and 9 months  ago, i bought a 32 mb xd card for $23 for a $30  fujifilm camera
  then 1 year later, for my olympus  a 500 mb card for $20

dont let xd card's reputation  be in the way

clb

yeh it's a small thing but I've read reviews of the Fuji f40fd, no zoom when taking video clips? That's ...wow... I'm surprised that they can't do that!

actually I saw the boxing day sale flyers for best buy and future shop already... none of them have the cameras that I'm considering on sale 'cept the SD850 but I think I prefer the SD870 over 850 for the larger screen and wider angle lens. In any case I still haven't decided.

I looked at broadway camera, vision, blacks, and the source...all their prices are so much more expensive

布小熊

原帖由 kisstherain 於 2007-12-24 01:22 AM 發表
I have a Fuji fd50 and it's SD card ok!

How do you like your f50fd? I am still trying to hunt a f31fd... but it's found nowhere any more except ebay jacked up price ones. (older model that has better image quality but only takes XD.)

Derek128

原帖由 kisstherain 於 2007-12-24 01:22 發表
I have a Fuji fd50 and it's SD card ok!

可唔可以post 下相
想比較一下高低MP o既 noise level
e.g 9MP ISO1600 VS 3MP ISO 1600

maanmo

原帖由 clb 於 2007-12-24 12:11 發表
yeh it's a small thing but I've read reviews of the Fuji f40fd, no zoom when taking video clips? That's ...wow... I'm surprised that they can't do that!

actually I saw the boxing day sale flyers for ...

this casio ex-v7 on sale
it has optical zoom for video
steve says
Movie mode allows you to capture VGA up to 848×480 (UHQ Wide) resolution video with audio, limited in length only by the amount of available memory. It too has some cool features, like the Past Movie mode, which captures moving images continuously, but begins saving the clip from a point in time 5 seconds before the record button is depressed. And, you can zoom optically while shooting, a feature not present in most compact cameras. All features aside, this camera's movie mode produced high-quality clips with very little compression noise.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/ex-V7.html
during boxing day, price dropped by half,

only $170 , future shop,may be its better than the sony w80

[ 本帖最後由 maanmo 於 2007-12-27 16:58 編輯 ]