http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-7051.aspx

Only for holidays etc nothing to advanced like

I persuaded my dad to buy the Fuji F80 EXR point and shoot. The reason being he likes photography, but has not been able to adapt to digital cameras. Simply stick the camera into EXR mode and the camera does the work for you. It double the pixels together to help low light photography, and does similar clever things to achieve high dynamic range in bright situations. It isn't the last word in quality, but his rate of 'keepers' has gone up massively from his DSLR. Personally I think they are a nice camera, with a great Auto feature. It's only about £140-£145 at Argos and Jessops, even cheaper on line. Definitely a great little point and click camera that anyone can use. I am sure people will recommend other great compacts, but this one seemed to me to be the best for people who don't want to know how the camera does it's thing or get involved with manual settings. If you have a family member who is clueless about cameras, then this could be the one for you

I have this:

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-0783.aspx

And its ace. I like the sweep panoramic function and the auto shoot. It determines what the best settings are for the shots. Has face recognition and something very amusing: smile detection, it waits for your subject to smile - as soon as they do it takes the photo. 720p HD movies as well. also - its tiny, very pocket friendly.

Oh and its made from metal, so feels great.

Edited 20 April, 201115 yr by prolfe

Cheers guys

Do those two models come with a battery, can't be dealing with separate chargers an that

Cheers guys

Do those two models come with a battery, can't be dealing with separate chargers an that

Has a battery and comes with a charger, battery pops out, can take Sony's memory sticks or SD cards.

Have to say the Samsung WB600 takes some beating for zoom capacity and compactness - we've got 3 in the family now - Argos were knocking them out at £115 recently

My Canon SX220 doesn't just do smile detect, but also does 'next new face in shot' detect and..............................'WINK' detect. Yep, you wink at the camera and it take s picture! But it is about £225 from Fotosense and it is a very complicated little camera. Thats why I like the EXR Fuji's as they are simple to operate and produce very usable pictures without having to understand whats going on.

My Canon SX220 doesn't just do smile detect, but also does 'next new face in shot' detect and..............................'WINK' detect. Yep, you wink at the camera and it take s picture! But it is about £225 from Fotosense and it is a very complicated little camera. Thats why I like the EXR Fuji's as they are simple to operate and produce very usable pictures without having to understand whats going on.

Even though you capitalised, I still had to read it three times.

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This is a test btw:

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Edited 21 April, 201115 yr by prolfe

Have to say the Samsung WB600 takes some beating for zoom capacity and compactness - we've got 3 in the family now - Argos were knocking them out at £115 recently

I second this, I bought one recently. Very happy with the results.

Update ......

Following the good ladies advice I bought A Fuji F300 EXR as the F80 is old news now

It does exactly what I'm after if not a little too much maybe lol

Took it on holiday and its been great, Just need to learn how to take a photo now lol

Any good guide around for a complete noob, you know f./iso/shutter settings etc

Update ......

Following the good ladies advice I bought A Fuji F300 EXR as the F80 is old news now

It does exactly what I'm after if not a little too much maybe lol

Took it on holiday and its been great, Just need to learn how to take a photo now lol

Any good guide around for a complete noob, you know f./iso/shutter settings etc

Hope you enjoy it The great thing about the EXR cameras, is you can just leave it in EXR if you are in any doubt and you will get a lot of 'keepers' I'd try You tube and just put in 'ISO explanation' etc The guide might be on a DSLR, but the theory is the same. From my personal experience with Compact Cameras, I find they start to look a bit too noisy above iso 400-800, whereas DSLRs can still look good at 1600 and even beyond.

I thinkof iso-aperture-shutter speed, as an interconnected triangle.

More isois more level gain in the picture, this gives you a faster shutter speed orlets you shoot in darker places. The pay off is the picture gets noisier.

Bigger aperture(lower f number) in a way does something similar, in that there is more gain inthe picture, but this time it is in the form of more light getting to thesensor through the bigger iris. This means the camera almost has too much lightgetting in so it uses a lower iso (good) and quite possibly a faster shutterspeed (good if you want to stop the action). It also means you get a shallowdepth of field. So you object of your attention is nice and sharp, but thebackground behind is nicely blurred. This is best for portraiture. In fact yourportrait setting does just this for you.

Fastershutter speed is great for stopping action. The pay off though, is that you mightneed either more light or more gain (iso number) as the shutter lets less lightin (this isn’t exactly how it works, but I find it helps to think of it likethis). So you might find picture looks dark if don’t adjust one of these otherparameters. But your Sport setting (or pets and kids setting) willautomatically do this for you.

If youwant to take a landscape picture, then the aperture is made really small (big fnumber). This gives you a great depth of field, in which everything is infocus, from things near you to things in the distance. The pay off is lesslight gets in to the sensor and so the iso needs to go up to compensate :( orthe shutter speed needs to be slowed down (this lets more light get in, I thinkof it as light is a liquid and it pours in). Normally the longer shutter speedmeans the camera will shake a little more :( but your camera will have stabiliseroptions which help counter this and if you shoot landscapes, you might wantto invest in a small Gorrillapod they are brilliant and definitely a thingto take with you on holidays as you can take pictures of yourselves etc Butyour landscape setting on the camera will automatically set all this for you(small aperture, higher iso if needed etc)

I guess asort of crude summary would be

Big aperture= faster shutter speeds + lower iso + narrow depth of field

Fastshutter = Bigger aperture values + possibly higher iso + possibly narrow depthof field

High iso= Better shots in dingy/dark places + more noise in picture + possible fastshutter speed + possible wider aperture.

The 3things are all linked and I don’t think there is a guaranteed best way for allshots on all cameras, but you will find that even if you use theauto/EXR/preselected settings and then look at the shooting information (Exifdata) by clicking on a pictures properties, which settings work well to giveyou the type of shot you desire. It is complicated, until you get the feel ofit all, then it is just hard to get that great shot

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