Replacement for Canon G2

seen good reports of the G6 at about £450
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canong6/

Hi John

The G6 seems a step forward from my G5 (with which I'm very pleased). I scored a used G5 in order to spread less cash on a rapidly changing technology. It looks like they've cured the purple fringing thing (which afflicts many makes/models) on the G6 (IIRC), and the form-factor/handling is improved over the G5. Looks like it could be a winner.

You're not tempted by a D-SLR such as Nikon's D70?

What's your budget John?

I have a Canon S50 compact camera and just treated myself to an SLR Eos 350D. Marvelous. Got me back into SLR / interchangable lenses after a 15 year absence..... Only issue is that it gets expensive......

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Originally posted by Rico:
You're not tempted by a D-SLR such as Nikon's D70?

The D70 is wicked!

Seconded.

What about the Canon A620 - this all has excellent reviews (seems to have all of the functionality of the G6) and can fit in a pocket. I have just brought one as a camera I can take around with me all the time.

Rgds,
Tim

Nothing dates faster than a digital point and shoot. I'd pay the minimum which delivers the pictures you want, as you'll be throwing the camera away in two years anyway.

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I'd pay the minimum which delivers the pictures you want, as you'll be throwing the camera away in two years anyway.

Why does it stop taking pictures after that?
Our Olympus is working fine after 3 years. I hope cameras don't go the way of mobiles, as they do every other bloody thing except make phone calls it seems.

Howard

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You're not tempted by a D-SLR such as Nikon's D70?

I am considering buying two cameras, one to stick in my pocket that I can take to parties etc. the other for more serious photography when I'm on holiday or at special occasions. I am therefore thinking of buying a Canon EOS 350D and one of the ultra compact Casios. I'll have a play with the G6, but I suspect, like the G2, that it is too bulky to be a pocket camera and lacks the funcionality of a proper D-SLR.
John

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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I'd pay the minimum which delivers the pictures you want, as you'll be throwing the camera away in two years anyway.

Why does it stop taking pictures after that?
Our Olympus is working fine after 3 years. I hope cameras don't go the way of mobiles, as they do every other bloody thing except make phone calls it seems.

Howard

Well, I bought a Nikon Coolpix 4500, less than two years ago. Pretty much state-of-the-art for a point and shoot at that time, a decent lens was my priority for my first foray into digital. It was poor straight out of the box with; shutter lag, short battery life, soft focus and slow write speed to memory. I now consider it completely unuseable.
The rate of development may have slowed since then, but I still think today's leading P&S camera will be tomorrows paper-weight. I currently use a Leica D-Lux2 as my P&S, and as an old-school photographer, again putting the lens first. Again I am already very aware of its flaws, and doubt if it will be used in two years time, when I expect to see credit-card size cameras with no shutter-lag and instantaneous write to memory for each 30 Mb picture file.

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Originally posted by John Channing:
I am considering buying two cameras, one to stick in my pocket that I can take to parties etc. the other for more serious photography when I'm on holiday or at special occasions. I am therefore thinking of buying a Canon EOS 350D and one of the ultra compact Casios.

Sounds like a good plan to me. The EOS350D looks good value at the moment although it'll get a lot more expensive if you decide to get better lenses (and you should!) than the consumer spec 18-55 it comes with.

I seriously considered one of those as my first DSLR but an existing investment in Pentax lens meant I eventually went with their *ist DS instead.

£100 gets you a decent little digital point and shoot now.

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Originally posted by Rockingdoc:
Again I am already very aware of its flaws, and doubt if it will be used in two years time, when I expect to see credit-card size cameras with no shutter-lag and instantaneous write to memory for each 30 Mb picture file.

Lens improvements aren't keeping up with digital technology so those 30Mb files won't be much better than a 6Mb today.

I picked up a Canon EOS 350D today, it's a great looking piece of kit.
John

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Originally posted by John Channing:
I picked up a Canon EOS 350D today, it's a great looking piece of kit.
John

Hey John, Happy new year dude!

Happy New Year Dev! Let's hope we meet up more in 2006, we've been very poor recently!
John