[525] Compact Camera - 2007/12/18 (Tue)

Actually, it's usually the second question, but 'What camera do you recommend?'

Honestly, this is the most difficult. An SLR of course, but for those girls among us, you have to carry it around, so something small and light would be best.

As for me, I use my CANON EOS Kiss DX for a substitute, but I've also go a few others, a Nikon D40, an Olympus E-410, and a Pentax K100D. I bought them for about 5~70000 yen with the lens kit. Except that if the price doesn't come down, getting into SLRs is difficult.

The winner then would be a compact digital in the 30000 yen range. So it follows that each company has put out a considerable number of them. Of course, there's the old stand bys of Canon and Nikon, and for digital functions, there's Sony, Panasonic, Casio and the like, an overwhelmingly home made lot.

Well, try them out, select one with good zoom, length of battery charge, size of LCD screen, ease of use, start up speed, things like that, and after that, the more you carry the compact digital around, the ratio of design to fuctionality importance increases a lot.

When you go to buy from the camera store clerk, try to look at it and touch it for a little while, and it's no problem if you buy the first one to catch your fancy.

Your impression won't change once you buy it. (^_^) Just that, personally, as a CANON user, I recommend, their IXY, or maybe the Fuji FinePix. (^_^)

After that, budget permitting, something like a Ricoh GR digital would be good. For that price, you could just go ahead and buy a cheap SLR (^^;) but used as a mono, it's an extraordinary compact digital camera.

Choosing a camera... There are really many kinds of machines, so well, if you think about all of them, it'd be trouble, but isn't it fun to worry about all that? (^_^)

If you buy one, it's even better~ (*tempted*) Have a Christmas present as a reward to yourself. (^_^)

Also, in the honeymoon,while you're taking pictures left and right all over the place, please take something for the next photo contest, alright? (^_^)

Well then well then~

P.S. Incidentally, the camera in the photo is a GR film camera.


[ a) mandatory overtime is also the devil's own tool.
b) the email sent from yuu's BBS the other day was a thank you for people who came to the 12/8 and 12/9 thing, and also the announcement of another such event "due to popular demand" on december 23 and 24 (so merry christmas to those of you close enough to the shinjuku mitsukoshi store to go to that), and lastly an urge to donate to the BONDS juvenile institute for the handicapped fund.
c) what a coincidence, i was thinking about getting a fuji finepix... ]