Good luck with your new purchase old chap. By the way, we took your
advice and my wife (SWMBO ;-)) bought a Mju 100 wide; despite your
recent reservations, she is enjoying using its various capabilities –
thanks,.
Chris
On 25 Jul 2004, at 19:08, Wilcox, Joel F wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who chimed in on this thread. I've made a decision, so
> if
> you're interested in something that is probably completely irrelevant
> to
> you day, read on.
>
> As I said at the start of this thread, I am interested in getting a
> digital camera that will be a true starter camera for me, but I want
> something fairly current, not too expensive, and I expect to explore
> all
> of its features on the way, presumably, to eventual ownership of a body
> in the E-(x) line. I had narrowed things down to the C-5060 and
> C-8080.
> What moved me about these two cameras is that they both are a little
> wider than normal (about 28mm in 35mm terms), and both are reputed to
> have superb image quality (with some qualifications). But with the
> C-8080's larger sensor and 8MP capability, I wondered if it were more
> than I want in my first sophisticated digital camera -- in fact, a
> departure not on the way to a E-(x) but down a parallel course.
>
> The price of the C-8080 ($850-1000USD) is really beyond starter range
> for me too. But as long as I was considering it and the price range,
> Winsor's suggestion (thanks Winsor) to look at the Digital Rebel
> knocked
> me off my pins for a while. It ultimately came down to whether I could
> use the D-Rebel for the stuff I originally had in mind: my desire is
> to
> have a unit small enough to carry around most of the time and store
> inconspicuously in my work shoulder bag. The idea is to replace some
> color negative with digital. For the D-Rebel to do that, I would need
> the standard 18-55 lens for it, but that lens would not go as wide as I
> had hoped, plus I found out it is regarded as just so-so and to get the
> range of even the C-5060 would require a commitment to Canon glass that
> I would never be willing to make now or in the future. So there will
> be
> no 58mm filters in my immediate future.
>
> The other choices that seemed interesting to me were the Dimage A(x).
> The A2 looks good but really falls into the same neighborhood as the
> C-8080. Too much dough for this camera at this time. A used A1 would
> be cool, but I think I want a warranty on my first digicam with a
> thousand new features to learn and discern.
>
> So I ordered a C-5060 from B&H this morning. It will probably arrive
> on
> Thursday and the next phase of my education will begin. I wish that it
> had some of the features of the Dimages -- IS and a longer reach on the
> lens -- and of the two I am sure the longer reach would be more
> significant for me for this camera. That's the only lingering doubt.
> But there's no doubt that I want the wide lens, so that's that. I
> guess
> one of my learning points will be to find out how significant the slow
> RAW write time is going to be to me. Should this have an impact on the
> kind of "digital film" I buy?
>
> Thanks again to all who responded.
>
> Joel W.
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