Digital camera- will someone please tell me which one?

Little_John

Ive had a look on DP review and would go for the Olympus FE130 ou of the 3 you mention. some of the info I would normally look for are missing but it seems a slightly better camera.

The XD card thing, I know they are expensive but you dont buy that many of them, I have a 512MB and it so far had been fine for me, The only time I could have used bigger was a Day in SeaWorld in San Diego I managed to fill it.

Another to look at would be the Pentax Optio S55, the Boots site has it priced at £140, its been arround for a while but they seem pretty good cameras. But I do now the Olympus cameras have a nice lense. My self I would be looking for a bigger zoom lense but your budget restricts that. and the fact the range in boots is limited.

The USB SD cards have the USB contacts built in to the card, hald of the card is there to make it a standard SD size and it folds away leafing the conector showing you just put that in the USB port, jaut have a look at the end of a USB cable, most of it is thre to stop people plugging them in wrong.

oldwiring

alexjohnson wrote:

oldwiring wrote:

The screen consumes power; a viewfinder does not!QUOTE]

But on a compact camera the screen will show you what you will actually capture. The viewfinder will be slightly off-set; it will be worse at close distances, so you aren't quite framing what you think you are. Especially if you have people in a doorway or something similar with straight lines it can be quite noticeable.

Well on my Olympus C750 UZ there is an eyelevel viewfinder but no glass on the front side for the optical view, so I would conclude the scene is genrated somehow via the lens. If it is not please esplain.

f1charlie

alexjohnson wrote:

Well on my Olympus C750 UZ there is an eyelevel viewfinder but no glass on the front side for the optical view, so I would conclude the scene is genrated somehow via the lens. If it is not please esplain.

That's because it's an EVF - Electronic Viewfinder - and not an optical viewfinder.

Charlie

oldwiring

f1charlie wrote:

That's because it's an EVF - Electronic Viewfinder - and not an optical viewfinder.

Charlie

Thanks, but am I right in assuming it still uses less power than the screen?

f1charlie

I believe that an EVF does use less power than an LCD because it is only a fraction of the size.

Charlie