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Bronze Member Username: Dish_newbPost Number: 14 Registered: Apr-06 | I need some helping in buying a good digital camera. Here's what I am looking for: - atleast 2.5 - 3 in viewfinder - a really good flash that will take good pictures inside your house. If it doesnt have a great flash, I atleast need somekind of hot shoe to which I can connect a fully synched external flash (possibly with metering) - lighweight and pocketable - good battery life - I am not looking for too many frills - I am not too fancy for mega pixels. 5MP will suffice for me - point and shoot - price 250 - 400 USD |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6Post Number: 11086 Registered: Dec-03 | Canon SD700. with the Image Stabilization feature you can go 2 or 3 stops over normal. However, the hot shoe feature is a little over the top for compact point and shoot cameras. Your other option is to get a slave flash. These compact cameras do not have the capacity for a powerful flash. Kinda defeats the purpose of the whole pocketable concept. |
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Bronze Member Username: Dish_newbPost Number: 15 Registered: Apr-06 | Berny - thanks for the info. Where can I learn more about the slave flash. How do I attach and synchronize the camera and the flash? Does the SD700 come with an option to hookup a slave flash? |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6Post Number: 11092 Registered: Dec-03 | A slave flash is activated by the flash from the point and shoot camera. The problem is that it can also be activated by another flash from another camera. And the red eye reduction feature has to be deactivated because the pre-flash will activate the slave unit as well. I believe there are units that can be programmed but I have not used it with point and shoots. http://www.srelectronics.com/dlx3000.html http://www.steves-digicams.com/dsf-1s.html |
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Silver Member Username: ClaudermilkPost Number: 386 Registered: Sep-04 | Except for the flash requirement just about anything on the market will do. I am not aware of any P&S with a hot shoe; most don't have anything other than the crummy internal. However, there must be some that you can attach a flash to; my old Coolpix 995 had a port for a cable that gave it a hotshoe for any Nikon flash (had a SB-80 for it). |