Sunray
12-09-2005, 03:21
After some use with a Canon A95, I'd like a larger zoom. The canon is great, uses AA batteries (an essential feature I've found), excellent pictures on automatic and has good manual settings as well.
Its failings are some fringing on high contrast and 3x optical zoom. I'd like a much bigger zoom. Screen broke the other day due to a very bad road (Poipet-Siem Reap Cambodia) which shook it to pieces. Still works but have to use the view finder which isn't so great. If I don't get a warrenty replacement before I go back to India I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and get a new camera.
What I am thinking of is the Sony DSC-H1, its got a decent reviews, has a massive 12x optical zoom, 350mm eqv. lens and optical stabilisation. 310 quid in the UK. Gonna check out how much they are in the Sony center bangkok. I've a PSP so the memory cards are insertable into the PSP for near instant photo viewing and I can use them for hacked games which eases the Memory stick memory problem (cost) for me.
Anyone used one of these mega zoom compacts?
Its failings are some fringing on high contrast and 3x optical zoom. I'd like a much bigger zoom. Screen broke the other day due to a very bad road (Poipet-Siem Reap Cambodia) which shook it to pieces. Still works but have to use the view finder which isn't so great. If I don't get a warrenty replacement before I go back to India I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and get a new camera.
What I am thinking of is the Sony DSC-H1, its got a decent reviews, has a massive 12x optical zoom, 350mm eqv. lens and optical stabilisation. 310 quid in the UK. Gonna check out how much they are in the Sony center bangkok. I've a PSP so the memory cards are insertable into the PSP for near instant photo viewing and I can use them for hacked games which eases the Memory stick memory problem (cost) for me.
Anyone used one of these mega zoom compacts?