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  • cambir
    cambir Posts: 1,045
    edited June 2012
    Looked at a few more today including the Canon S100. Liked the Canon a lot, but wanted more than 5x optical zoom. So, I'm charging my new Panasonic ZS19. On sale for $250! Any advice for my first round of pictures on this thing?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited June 2012
    Figure out what it is you will normally use the camera for and try to create those situations (portraits, street photography, landscapes, etc..)... This way you can get an idea of what the camera will do in those situations and what you may need to work on to get better photos. When you start taking photos you intend to keep you are ready to go and not guessing at what you need to do.

    Enjoy your new camera. From my experience, you should be able to take lots of great photos with it.
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited June 2012
    Just one question... What do you plan to do with all that zoom?

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  • cambir
    cambir Posts: 1,045
    edited June 2012
    Syndil wrote: »
    Just one question... What do you plan to do with all that zoom?

    I have no idea!
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2012
    Digital zoom = no no for quality images. If you can, zoom with your feet!

    Call it a day and get the Canon T3i with a nifty fifty (Canon 50 1.8 = $100 ish).

    (I do this full-time now by the way)
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  • cambir
    cambir Posts: 1,045
    edited June 2012
    audiocr381ve wrote: »
    Digital zoom = no no for quality images. If you can, zoom with your feet!

    Call it a day and get the Canon T3i with a nifty fifty (Canon 50 1.8 = $100 ish).

    (I do this full-time now by the way)

    I like to use the optical as well as my feet.

    I'm sure that's a nice camera, but not exactly compact...pretty sure I don't want to walk around with that in my pocket.
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2012
    cambir wrote: »
    I like to use the optical as well as my feet.

    I'm sure that's a nice camera, but not exactly compact...pretty sure I don't want to walk around with that in my pocket.

    Whoops, probably should have read the post and not just the title :redface:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited June 2012
    Tt sure is a heck of a lot cheaper to learn on digital than it was for me with FILM !!!!:lol:
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,335
    edited June 2012
    My wife just bought a Canon A4000 IS, look Here We have a larger Nikon CoolPixthat we paid more than twice as much two years ago that has been a real lemon (been at the shop 6 months out of 22 months). I have not used the Canon camera very much since it's only a week old. But my initial impresession are very favorable. It has an 8X optical zoom, face recognition focus, image stabilizer, etc.
    Carl

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited June 2012
    I just saw this Panny in my new Costco ad.....20x optical zoom for $249.99 I think if I needed a camera, I'd be very tempted by this one !:wink:

    http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/DMC-ZS19K
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