What Cameras Do People Use...

At the moment I'm looking at compact digitals with good macro and super macro settings. Much like Indigo and Minxifishy.


I'm not sure what a 'bridge' camera is... is it sort of a halfway house between compact and dslr?

The bridge cameras are like the fujis - more than the little square compacts but not quite an SLR.

the bridge camera is i think what ive got and theres a photo of it in my previouse post

i just took some of briittle stars here
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=296559&hl=

I use a Fuji Finepix S6500 fd, it's a great camera, can be a bit fiddly on the controls and take some time getting used to but all in all is great for my needs, got it for £150 just over a year ago now and people are always mistaking it for a rather expensive digital SLR because of it's appearance

Here's a sample photo I took with it on Brighton beach shortly after I bought it.

nokia n95 phone believe it or not lol















srry about all the pics lol. Its a very good camera but you cant get the close ups and definition as you would with a proper camera

i use a pentax k110 will have to hunt up some pics for you

This is taken with a compact Fuji Finepix J100,10 mega pixel ( bought new forv £89.99).....



This was on a Pentax istD L2 dslr, 6 mega pixel ( these are old models and can be picked up cheap second hand).....

I agree that a bridge camera is the way to go. For a long time I have been recommending that people DO NOT get SLR's if it is because they believe they will automatically get better pics - This is not necessarily true!

My old Nikon 8700 bridge camera was a little stunner....



And the funny thing is it was slated as an unusable camera with many users. Goes to show that some people slate things when maybe they shouldn't! If you look at my photobucket account I think the only thing that restricted this camera in a major way was me, although it was as slow as an old dog!

The reason I upgraded from this camera was for a couple of reasons -

I almost always shot in manual mode and this camera was not quite optimized for this, however it was not far behind an SLR just that some functions were berried in menus.
The camera was also slow to focus, and had a lot of noise at anything above ISO 200. However it was a 2003 model which would have cost the original owner over £1000 back then I paid about £250 s/h about three years ago.

Anyway, to get the shot above with an SLR is going to cost me at least an extra £200 for a dedicated macro lens alone!

So, unless you know you really want an SLR, and why then forget it and save yourself some serious cash!

As for a bridge camera, not sure what is available these days I would highly recomend finding a photography specific forum telling them exactly what you want and then go to Jessops or independant to road test some different models - take a memory card with you if you have the right one which is what I did!

Picked myself up Canon EOS 1000D last year.
very pleased with it

If you don't want to go down the dslr route the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 (bridge) is one of the best sub 300 pounds cameras on the market