Thinking of buying one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009J5746/026-1447676-5176468 Going to Moscow photographing the World Hairdressing Championships in July and want a camera that I'm happy to take abroad that will work well and reliably. Any thoughts or opinions gratefully received as I'll be putting the money down this week! :)

thats strange as im off to outer mongolia to photograph the world morris dancing championships soon

one piece of advice. be VERY careful with your camera as theft is rife over there from tourists

i recently was gonna upgrade to a digital slr m8

and a mate of mine is pretty clued up on them

and he baffled me with science in what to look for

so much so i still aint bought one

best to look at somewhere like this to do comparisons

and some EXCELLENT reviews

 

 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sidebyside.asp

thats strange as im off to outer mongolia to photograph the world morris dancing championships soon

How nice for you. I'm sure you'll get on terribly well with the many bearded hanky wearers. They may even let you hold their sticks.

 

Lampshader: Will do. Have previously travelled to Slovenia and the Ukraine and know the score unfortunately.

 

Billynomates: cheers for the link. Think it's time to get on the digital SLR bus ;)

sorry mate was beeing a bit acerbic with that wasnt I

Gotta stop drinking in the day

I was going to upgrade to a digital SLR and looked very closely at the Nikon D70S. It is an excellent camera. The only problem with a Digital SLR is you loose a few of the functions of a normal point and click digital camera.

 

I opted for the Fuji S9500. It is not an SLR, but has nearly all of the functions of an SLR and can be used like an SLR. It has a 28-300mm lense. Virtually zero shutter lag. You can take photos in RAW format. The biggest downside is that you cannot change the lense.

 

Although I hate Dixons, they do have a good selection of cameras. Go down to your local Dixons and have a play with them. Get a good feel for the camera.

 

Whichever camera you buy you will need to buy a memory card. Most SLR`s do not come with one and the cameras that do, are only big enough to hold 3 photos.

Leigh, you cant go far wrong with a Nikon digital SLR mate..... maybe need another lens as that's only 3x. Remember to take loads of data storage (microdrive???) or take the laptop and dump each days pics on there (that's what I did in Le Mans a couple of years back)

 

Now i got a Fuji S5500 which i'm happy with. It's not SLR but it looks like one :p and image quality is quite good thanks to the decent CCD in there. 6x optical zoom too.

 

HTH

 

Rob.

Hi mate, I definitely recommend the D70s, I've got a D50 myself (the next one down) and I'm chuffed to bits with it, I am thinking about trading it in for the D70s just because it has a few more features for not a lot more money. I would definately get a couple of lenses too, it'll come with a 18 - 55mm lens or similar and I'd get a 55 - 200mm as well or something along those lines. Also, Jessops do complete warranty cover including theft for about £150 for two years I think which is definately worth it for piece of mind. Hope this helps and good luck!

 

Regards,

Rich

chippyrich is spot on. the D50 rocks and the D70 is even better. i read into this loads so to save you the reading, do it do it do it!!

I've got a D70 and have been more than happy with. It is great as a point and shoot, with lots of different preset settings like portrait, landscape etc. if you don't want to play around with the manual settings - which make it even better...

Thanks for the replies chaps. Definately going to plum for the D70S. Just routing around for the best deals. Suprisingly Jessops come out pretty well (they price match as well) but I'm considering buying the body only (found one for just under £400 delivered) and opting for a Nikon AF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G Dx VR Lens which would cover all the bases.

 

If anyone knows anywhere that does good deals (also going for the Nikon SB-800 Speedlight and Sandisk 1GB Extreme III Compactflash Card) I'd be very interested to hear as I really need to get this as soon as possible.

 

Rob: Bueno idea :) If the laptop comes back from the repairers in time I'll deffo be taking it! ;)