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The dreaded "can you recommend me a good camera"?

Started Oct 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
YWG Senior Member • Posts: 1,364
Re: The dreaded "can you recommend me a good camera"?

toomanycanons wrote:

Budget: $300. This friend of mine shoots with his phone and only looks at his images on his phone. He has some vague issues with his phone pics "some are blurry" and wants to up his game. He knows I shoot professionally and figured I'd know the $300 market (!)

Well...I told him to go on ebay and find a nice low-mileage 330 HS. I have one and am usually blown away by the SOOC jpegs and...bonus...a very very sharp 10x optical zoom.

I doubt if he could get some Canon 1" sensor camera in his budget but maybe I'm wrong. He knows nothing about post processing, If he'd come to me and said he really really wanted to get into photography and post processing etc etc I'd recommend some budget DSLR.

So, any suggestions? A low mileage SX50?

Guess it depends on the market. I see g9x mki and g7x mki on the local craigs for 400 cdn and local photo store. That is 308 bucks US. Would he be bothered to carry another device?

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