Ik ben op zoek naar een nieuwe digitale camera en heb nu de Nikon Coolpix 3100.
na onderstaande gepost te hebben op dpreview (in het engels

)met bijbehorend antwoord kreeg ik de tip voor de S6500FD
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agraaff wrote:
> I a m not the first with this and certanly won't be the last but i
> need some help deciding on a new camera.
>
> I used to take photo's with my Canon EOS 300 which is a great
> camera but as you all know not a digital one so some 4 years ago
> decided to buy a digital camera and you guesed hardly ever used the
> canon again.
Do you still have the lenses? EF-mount lenses will work on Canon's digital SLRs, although (a0 you'd likely have to go used to go below $300, and (b) for $300, you're getting a so-called 1.6x sensor that will crop some of the image out. This will hurt if you're mostly interested in wide angle.
> 1. The LCD display is to small (1,5 inch) you think the photo is OK
> until you see it on the PC, then more than often it is off focus or
> it focussed on the wrong object.
If you use the LCD, use it for review, at max zoom, and know that unless zoom is extreme a seemingly good image there may be out-of-focus -- as you've noticed.
When shooting, try using just a single AF point, and check AF confirmation light in viewfinder. Doable for many cameras, dunno about yours. If you go SLR, split-image screen can make a big difference.
> 3. Picture quality indoors is often poor and with a large grain and
> tends to be yellowish/pink/reddish (can't descibe it exact).
Two issues.
~Grain is noise associated with higher ISO values. Workarounds are adding light, using a longer exposure (provided subjects are stationary and either support or stabilization is in use), or using equipment that does better at high ISO. Fuji fixed-lens and any DSLR will do better here. Small-sensor cameras tend to be poor here for reasons of physics.
Color cast is a white balance issue associated with indoor light. Impact can be reduced by setting white balance appropriately -- custom WB off light source or known-neutral subject, or possibly manual with an appropriate tungsten or fluorescent setting. Shooting raw gives you an easier time fixing WB later.
> 4. Trouble focussing indoors, even if the light contitions arent
> that bad. (want pilot light to focus)
Sony DSC-F717 was unusually good here, but that was years ago. 'Hologram Assist', I think they called it -- projected a grid, where many either use a single red dot, strobe the internal flash, or don't do AF-assist at all. Haven't checked whether they're continuing this.
> 5. time it takes to focus, to slow.
If it's dark, most will be pretty slow.
Ricohs have a reputation for being pretty fast.
> 6. limited optical zoom, 3x is often not enough.
3x is a ratio; it could mean 28-84 (~35mm equiv, or would be if aspect ratio were the same); it could also mean 38-114, which is somewhat different. Or so forth. Focal length is a better measure.
> 7. Almost every picture of people has red eyes, even if red eye
> reduction is turned on.
Increase the angle between flash, eye and lens. Easiest done with a flash elevated above the body -- ex. external, of-camera, or a pop-up flash rather than one built-in right next to lens. 'Red-eye reduction' flash is intended to help by triggering the flash first to contract irises, but elevating the flash is more likely to work.
> 8. battery life is not to good.
Minimize LCD use. If AA form, use high-capacity NiMHs.
> But now the fun part :-) if posible for no more than $300.
>
> If you could get me any tips on what types to look at i would realy
> appreciate it, there are just to much camera's to choose.
> If what i want is not possible for under $300 please some
> suggestions on the camera's that will apply.
>
Maybe look at the Fuji S6000fd.
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Nu ben ik redelijk entoushiast geworden voor deze camera maar twijvel nog over het volgende.
Meestal zal ik gewoon huis tuin en keuken kiekjes nemen met de camera, soms echter in de dierentuin of op vakantie wil ik een iets betere kwaliteit fot kunnen nemen. echter ik weet niets van belichtin, sluiterlijden diafrgma etc. en hoe dit in te stellen. hij moet gewoon goede foto's maken.
waar ik dan ook over twijvel, is dit dan niet overkill? en kan ik niet net zo goed een compact camera nemen voor 100 a 150 euro minder? bv de finepix V10 (die heefd mijn nichtje vandaar dat ik deze noem).
Of is een compact camera dus danig veel slecher dat hierin geen vergelijk is te trekken?
een ander punt, we hadden normaal 2 camera's 1 voor de kiekjes (nikon coolpix 3100) en 1 voor de mooiere foto's (Canon eos300) maar deze laatste gebruiken we nooit meer omdat hij niet digitaal is.
Hoe goed is de S6500 in verhouding tot de eos300(ZONDER D!)?
ofwel, koop ik nu een gemiddelde compact en als ik weer gespaard heb een DSLR voor de vakantie en mooiere foto's of kan ik alles af met de S6500...
Hij hoeft trouwens niet in mijn zak te passen (gaat hij toch stuk) maar moet ook niet zo groot zijn als een SLR camera, die is nl erg onhandig mee te nemen en nogal zwaar om de hele dag om je nek te hebben, wat is de ervaring met de S6500 hierin?
als iemand nog tips heeft hoor ik dit graag.
Groeten,,
Arjan