Sony W70 or Ixus 65

Clairebear789b

Hi

Hope you can give me your preference. I have been reading all the old threads tonight, and have narrowed down my choice of digital camera to the Sony W70 or Canon Ixus 65. Which one do you guys prefer? I am a basic kind of girl that just wants nice family shots at christmas etc. nothing too technical.

Claire

deanos

The Sony uses expensive memory sticks while the Canon uses dirt cheap SD cards you might want to take that into consideration

Mikeyorks

I've always found this site to be fairly good on comparisons :-

http://www.steves-digicams.com/best_cameras.html

.. the Sony makes it into the 'best buys' in the 6-10 megapixel category. But they're both good cameras in that sort of price range. So check out the prices via Pricerunner or similar - and let that decide?

But on spec - I'd take the Sony.

Trixxie

deanos wrote:

The Sony uses expensive memory sticks while the Canon uses dirt cheap SD cards you might want to take that into consideration

I got sandisk 1 gig memory sticks a couple of months ago from bigpockets for around £12, so value ones can be found.

I too am a Sony fan. An important point to compare is "shutter lag", you want the minimum!

HTH
Trixxie

f1charlie

Go for the one which feels most comfortable in your hands.

DuncanMiller

I have an ixus 50 and it is really light, quick and user friendly. Takes good pics too.

Not tried a sony but would imagine its pretty good as well.

Another point to note is that the battery life on my ixus 50 is great. Rechargeable and it last forever on each charge!

vij1366

hi it looks to me the sony is the clear winner i prefer sony any way.
have a look at this site https://www.purelygadgets.co.uk
the price on there is £196.62 with a 1 gb memeory stick where as the ixus 65
is £282 with a 1gb card and a spare battery.teh other site to goto is the

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_6613.html where you can see what others think of it .
if you goto the purely site lok for the browse on your left and choose the cat for the make and it will say whether u want bundle deals or camera
also if you have a sony(mbna ) card you will get pulse points on this and also i beleive tey will extended the warrenty on your camera (sony) but u must pay for it with the sony card.also check on quidco and see if the site i have listed is on this a s u will also get some dicount also if you goto
http://www.vouchercodes.com/vouchers/cameras2u.htm you can get free delivery and insuance warrenty for three years for £30 well worth having hte cam on here is for £200 with abundle
good luck:cool:

wolfman

DuncanMiller wrote:

Another point to note is that the battery life on my ixus 50 is great. Rechargeable and it last forever on each charge!

It's not so good on newer models. In fact it's one of the worst. I think the Ixus 65 can get something like less than 200 photos per charge, where as it's competitors can get nearer or even over 400.

vij1366 wrote:

hi it looks to me the sony is the clear winner i prefer sony any way. have a look at this site https://www.purelygadgets.co.uk
the price on there is £196.62 with a 1 gb memeory stick where as the ixus 65
is £282 with a 1gb card and a spare battery.

Woah, woah. £282! You haven't done much searching. You can pick it up for £169 on Amazon. £11 for a 1gb SD card and you're talking £180.


They're both incredibly similar in terms of function and quality. As mentioned above the best thing is to go to a shop and see how they feel in your hands, which control/menu system you prefer etc...

Another similar camera worth looking at is the Casio EX Z850. One of my flatmates has one and I'm very impressed by it. So many options, probably one of the best of its type if you want lots of manual functions.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Casio-EX-Z850-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B000EPVVUE/sr=1-1/qid=1162556354/ref=sr_1_1/026-6701988-9412462?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

Mikeyorks

wolfman wrote:

Woah, woah. £282! You haven't done much searching.

Too true. I picked them both up on Pricerunner at around / just over the £150 mark