chobit

My suggestion, Canon G9 or G10, then buy an external Flash for bounce.  It's will work very well in most situation, unless you want to get into DSLR Photography!  Also, the G9/G10 Video feather should be enough for capturing video as well.

I am currently using a G9 setup doing most of the snap shots.

chobit

Well.. if you ever use flash on your point & shoot camera, you would probably found that no matter which model and brand, the flash light always tend to make the photo no longer very good.  This would be one of my reasoning why the G9 or G10.   Get external flash with it, then you will have a camera that can do much more.

chobit

Not sure what you mean, but my camera would be able to record 640 @ 30fps or 1024 @ 15fps for at least an hour if not hours..?

There are actually many benifit to use a camcorder over a regular DC.  I ended up using the DC more because it takes very little time to get it started: It probably takes 2-3 secs for me to get it start taking pictures or videos after I pick it up.  It's very responsive.  The battery also last long, and it uses a very common Canon rechargable battery!

Also, you would want to get a camera that has a tripod mount, so that you can record video while you are playing with your baby =D

BTW, you are going to have a lot less time of your own with a baby, video that a saved through the G9 is in avi format which can be posted online, or archive right away.  All you need to do is copy it off your memory to your computer just like the jpgs images..!

Just my 2 cents

成長片段 I would suggest to go for camcorder.

Since you can record his/her actions while the camera only can record the specific moments.
myversa 發表於 2009-5-6 08:34

chobit

This is what I mean!!  When you have a baby, you need something that's quick and easy with decent quality, and best do eveyrthing you wanna to do.

At time, you want to take pictures and record videos, and it's not easy to handle a video camcorder and a camera at the same time.  So, you will end up having to have to pick one.

Also playback capability on a good/large LCD would be a good idea.  You will be surprise who much your toddler would enjoy viewing him/herself in both photo and video form. =D

我d朋友生完之後都買部camcorder，最後都條擺埋一邊
ricrick 發表於 2009-5-6 09:24

chobit

IMHO, no DC is good enough w/o the capability mount an external flash.  When I get a chance I'll take a picture with my G9 with the external and w/o show that you know what I mean..!

chobit

Personally, I like the G9 better because of it has some extra video features, + more in the telephoto ends.  For wide angle, nothing beat my 12-24mm on my full frame DSLR =P

My friend got a Canon Powershot G10 recently and just notice that there is a service recall for certain batch...
http://www.usa.canon.com/consume ... ategoryid=222&m ...
fibbi 發表於 2009-5-6 09:58

chobit

Mcjohnjohn, good luck with you purchase.

I would still like to stress that no matter how a DC u gets, w/o a external option for flash for bounce, you may still end-up with relatively low quality flash image.

Include are some samples I took tonite..!  I went to bed very early 7:30pm, and got up around 2am... so I was not able to take those sample pics with my son.  I I use my Jazzie as a portrait subject, and my mouse as close up.  Each subject is taking with external flash bounce, and build-in flash on the G9.

PS: for the ones without the external flash, it would be much worst if I didn't shoot it in Raw and lower the exposure...!

chobit

My opinions about small/mini cameras:

Not sure about everyone else.., while I love to have a light weight DC, most of the time, I really don't like the super slim/mini size DC.  One big reason is camera w/o a hand-grip area is relatively hard to handle in compares to DC with hand-grip.  I can imagine taking thondsand of pictures with a mini DC which I have to hold with a few fingers touching just the slim edge.

eg. Have u ever use one of those mini computer mouse that's only 2 inches long.., they are small, very un-confortable.  Great item if you going to use it once in awhile with you laptop..., but you probably don't want one of those for working 40hrs a week!

chobit

That could be me

Chobit,我見過有人想唔請photographer,就咁用DC仔影婚禮添呀.......
MoiRhapsody 發表於 2009-5-7 02:35

chobit

Yeah.. No Kidding =D

Exactly! I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I saw KTR just posted on the photo board again!!!
BiscottiGelato 發表於 2009-5-7 17:28