SV650.org - SV650 & Gladius 650 Forum - Good camera? good value?

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Originally Posted by timwilky (Post 1708092)

I have an S8000FD. For me the Fuji cameras are the dogs bollock. Reasonable performance, reasonable capability (zoom/pre programmed speeds/card capacity/ anti shake/ face recognition etc.)

I am not a photography freak. I just like to take the odd piccy of places/things etc. I could never justify the cost of a DSLR. My 35mm Nikon must be 15 years old and gone through about 20 rolls in its life. Lesson learned with that. Why pay for the fancy features that you never use etc. Bridge cameras do all I need of a camera.

Oh indeed, as I said they are very good these days and do allow some expansion, and you're right a lot of DSLR owner will either be "photographic freaks" as you call it or rarely take the camera into manual mode, so it's a case of how far do you want to go ?

The modern crop of compacts are also very good and more than capable of the "odd piccy of places/things" but without the bulk of either a bridge or DSLR.

I guess it’s a question of degree, the point I was making is a bridge camera is good for that little extra over a compact, but if you want to get seriously into the subject you’ll find the limitations annoying and need to upgrade at some point, whilst a base DSLR will allow you to expand at the cost of the lens without having to buy a new camera which will work out cheaper in the long run ( although you’ll probably spend it on the lens anyway :D ).

Cheers Mark.