Good digital night camera?

[astburyblank]

Looking for a good reasonable priced camera for self takes at night, going France next month and don't want to ask the other lads to get up, reel in to hopefully take a shot for me. Don't want anything too bulky though. I have a small Samsung digi which is OK for daytime but crap at night. PS I'm no expert on cameras. Any advice please on prices and models which would be any good. Cheers

[MANAGER]

CANON 620 ?

Canon PowerShot A610 & A620: Digital Photography Review

[MANAGER]

Or better still, the CANON A630
A larger 2.5" flip round screen on this one.
It's a bargain here, make them an offer, if you don't win, they will probably offer you one at the price you bid anyway.
Canon Outlet: Digital PowerShot A630 (Refurbished) on eBay, also, Digital Cameras, Photography (end time 21-Aug-08 16:32:11 BST)

[boltontony]

whatever camera you decide on pal i'd reccomend this site,you'll do well to beat there prices

http://http://www.7dayshop.com/catal...o=SEARCH&comp=

[bobbins]

Originally Posted by boltontony

whatever camera you decide on pal i'd reccomend this site,you'll do well to beat there prices

http://http://www.7dayshop.com/catal...o=SEARCH&comp=

LOL .... one thing i would say is if your cam has the facility to take pics in J-peg and raw use this setting so if your pics come out crap (exposure wise ) you can have them tweeked to how they should have been you will be amazed at what you can do with a raw file and some good software.

[astburyblank]

Does anyone have one for sale, put a bid on one on **** to no avail.

[carp junkie]

if your after a point and take digital have a look at the sony's there superb for night shots the red light illuminates the whole screen and the latest one has a timer

[Blue]

Originally Posted by bobbins

LOL .... one thing i would say is if your cam has the facility to take pics in J-peg and raw use this setting so if your pics come out crap (exposure wise ) you can have them tweeked to how they should have been you will be amazed at what you can do with a raw file and some good software.

Whats the best software to edit photo's from raw? I got a disc with some photo software on when I got my EOS digi, but not gone down the route of playing with raw images yet.

[mickey]

Originally Posted by Blue

Whats the best software to edit photo's from raw? I got a disc with some photo software on when I got my EOS digi, but not gone down the route of playing with raw images yet.

bit confused by this talk of raw images can someone explain? the lads at work are always going on about raw images but ive a feeling its not reffering to digital camera and more to do with magazines named after old ford cars

[bobbins]

Originally Posted by Blue

Whats the best software to edit photo's from raw? I got a disc with some photo software on when I got my EOS digi, but not gone down the route of playing with raw images yet.

I use the Digital photo profesional which came with my 5d, it is quite easy to use once you get the hang of it just have a play and learn as you do.

[bobbins]

Originally Posted by mickey

bit confused by this talk of raw images can someone explain? the lads at work are always going on about raw images but ive a feeling its not reffering to digital camera and more to do with magazines named after old ford cars

A jpeg will lose information every time it's opened, worked on and saved. Every time it's re-saved, it's compressed - so more information is thrown away. Those missing details have to be "made up" - or "Interpolated" somehow( which means you lose some of the fine detail). The software you use will do its best to get it right, but the more times you re-save, the more you lose. But when shot in raw you lose nothing and have lots of control over correcting bad exsposure and white balance so even if you are not competant with the software you can take it to someone who is and have your pics correctly exsposed and balanced, they say a j-peg is a loss file and a raw is a lossless file, so if you have the facility to shoot in j-peg and raw at the same time that is the best setting as the j-pegs are good for putting on websites and forums etc as they are much easier and user friendly and the raw files for making prints of at a profesional quality.

[astburyblank]

totally lost me now

[carp junkie]

think of a tv screen mate a picture with say 10,0000 pixels has more info than a picture with 10,000 pixels and a raw file has as much info as the camera can take

[aphplumb12]

if you can get one a canon g4/ g5/ g6 they have a flip round screen a remote for self takes and they work wonders for night time shots they also have a raw file setting allowing you to edit the photo your self but would sugest using this mode for day time shots, ive owend all 3 of these cameras and still use the g5 and g6 they also have a adapter on the top for a flash canon which is basicaly a big flash that eluminates the background even more. these cameras popup on ebay quite alot and on here also and are verey cheap

heres a g5 for £63.50 buy now on ebay Item number: 120297107490 just copy and paste the item number

[bobbins]

Originally Posted by carp junkie

think of a tv screen mate a picture with say 10,0000 pixels has more info than a picture with 10,000 pixels and a raw file has as much info as the camera can take

The sensor ( the part that the picture is exposed onto which has replaced the old film we used to use) on a camera with 10,000 pixels has on its surface 10,000 little tiles that are light sensitive, when you take a picture with your camera the image which comes through the lens is projected onto its surface which it then reproduces via some software in your cam and converts it into a picture now here comes the difference between Raw and j-Peg files , when the camera is set to take pics in j-peg the sensor doesn't use all the 10,000 tiles so it has to guess for the ones not being used which means you are not using the 10,000 pixels you thought you were, add to that every time you open, save or edit a jpeg file you loose even more information because it is compressed when it is saved. Now a picture taken in Raw uses all the tiles on the sensor so you have true representation of what you shot and not an edited version like the j-peg, plus when you start editing it it doesn’t loose any quality due to the file not being compressed when it is saved.