Day and Night camera for holiday?

notanewuser

Chris101 wrote: »

The Panasonic sounds promising.

The camera will be typically used for holidays. Were off to Malaysia in a couple of days so need a camera to take pics of buildings and scenery (rainforest, animals and plants), especially during the night.

I would love to take pics of the moon and stars with the camera while it still is compactand has good battery life.

You'll need a tripod for moon shots. A gorilla pod would do it.

You'll also need to use the manual setting, so you'd better gen up on how cameras work!!!

Chris101

That's fine but will the choice still be the LX7?
I have read Sony rx100 may be better?

[Deleted User]

Neither of these cameras are a magic bullet.. Do you have a camera already? Pop out and buy a micro tripod, then tomorrow at dusk try taking some long exposure photos.

Chris101

I have a 5 year old compact canon which needs upgrading regardless, so I defo need a new compact camera first.

I will purchase the tripod with it at the same time.

Which one would you advise?

[Deleted User]

Want to see a low light photo from my compact canon ixus bought 9 years ago?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirwilliam/13901378/in/photostream/lightbox/

That was using a £15 tripod. These days, 7dayshop has good cheap photography kit. Honestly - when it comes to low light photos, a lot of it is down to practice, luck and experience

Just don't blow a wedge of cash expecting instant great results. Put some money aside for some photography books

Johnmcl7

As you have a decent budget I'd highly recommend the Sony RX100 - it may not look much different to other cameras but its sensor is far larger than other compacts (even those with slightly larger sensors like the Panasonic LX7) which gives it much better low light performance. The lens still lets in a lot of light at the wide angle setting although it doesn't keep such an advantage when zoomed in. It also has a few software tricks such as the handheld twilight mode (takes a burst series of pictures and stacks them together to minimise noise) and sweep panorama (which automatically creates a panoramic photo, you just simply sweep the camera along). The detail at low iso's is also surprisingly good as I assumed Sony chose 20MP because it sounded good and the camera's high price would be a tough sell as sensor size isn't well known.


John