Tuesday
Nov182003
Cameras part two
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at 11:19AM 
Last week, I thought we had settled on a 35mm SLR camera. I was wrong. I love SLRs, but the one we bought wasn't that user-friendly when it came to manual settings. We also realized that the size and fragility of the plastic body were going to be big issues. I really didn't want to cart the camera around to the Royal Winter Fair on Saturday. Today, we went to Henry's and shopped around. I went with the Pentax Optio 550 in mind, and that's exactly what we got (at a much better price than listed in the PC Magazine article). The quality is incredible, and the immediate gratification factor, and the savings on film processing, are also pretty big factors. It allows a lot of manual settings, so we'll still be able to play around with some of the advanced settings. Now, I think I'll have to start a fotoblog!
Reader Comments (3)
Good choice! That particular camera isn't for me. The buttons are just too small for my fat thumbs. But it's a really nice camera that takes really nice pictures. Not quite photographs, but as nice as you're going to find in a digital without spending the $ks for a digital SLR. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Maybe it will inspire me to start having fun with mine, again.
Sounds like you've used the one I got. What did you decide on? At 5 megapixels, I hope the photos will print out nicely!
I got an Olympus C-4000. Big and bulky. Good for fat thumbs. Only 4 MP.