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I need a lightweight travel camera. I don't care about price, I just want the best little camera I can buy. What are your recomendations?

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Sd 870 is a great pocket camera. Tiny, fast, wide angle and decent IQ.

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Have a Canon S5IS & Canon SD870IS - eventually want a G series camera too!
 
Yes, I have heard that the SD 870 is a very fine camera. I am also looking at the new Finepix F100fd by Fujifilm. It is supposed to be a fabulous camera IF it lives up to it's billing.

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I love my R1 but it's not a point and shoot pocket camera. It does have auto mode and auto this and that but I don't know of any pocket that it would fit.

It is a great travel camera. Great lens, jpg plus raw, strong built in flash, but fairly heavy (the big Zeiss Zoom). The biggest problem is You can't get em any more.

No, mine is not for sale!

jack1931
 
Panasonic FX100, Fujifilm F50fd (I wouldn't recommend the F100fd just yet... nobody knows for sure if it'll be any good), Canon SD950 IS (IXUS 960 IS), Nikon S700, Casio EX-Z1200, Sony W200... all of them have some interesting things that the others don't (for example, the Panasonic FX100 is so far the only -tested- wide angle camera; the Sony W200 is, I think, the only one with an optical viewfinder; the Nikon S700 has its BSS function -sort of an additional stabilization procedure-; and so on).

Of course, all of these have what few wouldn't consider excessive resolution... but they have it in a somewhat larger sensor, still allowing them to have better ISO performance and overall image quality than their smaller-sensor siblings.
 
... (based on current models) - In that order - unless a WA lens is paramount to you and you don't mind noise above ISO200 then the SD870 as other's have said is a good choice (BTW both the Fuji's are good thru ISO800 and even 1600 is decent) I don't see any real advantage to an SD950 - it's more expensive, has a smaller screen and no WA lens compared to the SD870... Matt
BobWil818 said:
I need a lightweight travel camera. I don't care about price, I just
want the best little camera I can buy. What are your recomendations?

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... if you are interested.

Matt, PA, U.S.
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Fuji F40 a great camera for a little money, but I think my sd950 is a great camera also but alot more money
 
I"m really happy with my SD850 IS, has IS, face detection, 8mp, and is very comfortable to use. I love it...

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I love my G9, but for a pocket P&S with many goodies, take a look at the Casios. I forget which model I had. Excellent screen, many modes, very good menu set up, and more than acceptable photos.
 
Just wanted to say it's pretty nice to see the Canon forum give the other brands some love.

I'll put in a vote for the Fuji F20 for the price and performance, but to be honest I'm also considering the SD1000 for the price and size. Just FYI, I did a search on Flickr for SD1000 and IXUS 70, and the IXUS 70 search yielded more interesting pictures because of all the cool architecture in Europe. Also, some exteremely nice low light pictures from the F20 can also be seen using search. Good luck.
 
I've had several pocket cameras. That's all I will use. I don't like to haul a camera bag around or even use a full size camera in the house.

If video is also important to you, I recommend Canon products. I have the A710 and it does a great job. I just got the TX1 and it does amazing HD videos and excellent stills. Downside to the TX1 is that the files gobble memory and it goes through batteries pretty quickly.
 
BobWil818 said:
I need a lightweight travel camera. I don't care about price, I just
want the best little camera I can buy. What are your recomendations?
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Its small, has face detection, takes great pics and great video. Has a large LCD but still has a viewfinder which is a must for me.
 
I agree; it is a real sleeper. Super fast, great pictures and extremely compact. It goes with me everywhere.

Drew
 
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Matt, PA, U.S.
Camera's:
Canon S5IS/430EX speedlite, Canon G9, Fuji F50fd
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I think it's called SD950 in the US.
It's the Titanium one, with 12 MP.
It's the best.

It fits into your pocket, is solid like a brick, not sensetive to scratches like some other Powershots, the Viewfinder is in the right place, you can squeeze it into your eye's corner and hold it steady that way and look through the viewfinder.

The lens is superb, you get the typical Canon Jpeg-smooth-look. I tested it first in a shop because those 12MP scared me, but surprise surprise, even ISO 1600 is useable as long as you use it in not too bad light conditions to get shorter shutter speeds. It's better than the 6MP of the older SD700/Ixus 800 which I owned before. Should be the same sensor and processor as in the G9.

It starts with 35mm focal length, that's boring, but the results are better than from the Ixus 860 (the one with the 28mm), and I prefer the better Jpegs as post-process nearly all my pictures, and the crippled but very well-placed viewfinder.
And boy, it's fast. Really fast.

Well, it's the most expensive .... More expensive than the A650.... for whatever reason...
 
I like the Fuji F31fd. It is about the same size as the Canon SD950 and has more manual controls. The best thing, however, is the LCD screen. It is the only one I can easily use in bright sunlight. Far superior in this regard to the Canons I have tried.

Mike
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If cameras were all free, I'd look at the brand new 25mm wide zoom model, in the panasonic range (I think). I like the idea of taking wider angle pictures.
 
Out of production....

and fun missing, no Panorama-shot-help like you have in nearly every Canon compact.

You can twist and tweak the colours and Jpegs of the Canons more to one's own liking than the fuji's.

The controls of the Canon are better, changing ISO in no time. The ISO Automatic is better as well, seems to have more brain and not jumping up to ISO 800 immediately.

That's why I prefer the Canon though the high ISO shots of the Fuji are a bit better.
But the Jpegs are overprocessed (my opinion).
 
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