[Closed] Small digital camera advice

I've been looking at the same cameras and haven't come to a conclusion...
Ixus is so small I thought perhaps the image quality would suffer...but I read the Lumix reviews (Amazon) and a few people complain at the low light performance on those?!
My criteria are that it needs to slip into a jeans pocket, perform well indoors / low light, family photos, optical image stabilisation.
Hope somebody will be along to put us right.

My Brother is in the same predicament and he reckons the Lumix FS7 will be hard to beat.

He used to have an Ixus

I sold all my DSLR gear a few months ago (wasn't getting much use out of it) and decided to buy a decent compact.

I've had a samsung NV10 (which was great until the lens mechanism packed up). I spent ages looking around for a suitable replacement - Fuji finepix 200exr. switchable sensor, upto 12800 ISO and a 28mm lens.

Its been faultless so far & you can pick one up for less than £200 now.

Canon Powershot SX200

Second the sx200 just bought one so mrs s can use it on manual and I can begin understanding how being able to alter settings changes the picture. reason for this is because I didn't want to go the whole hog of DSLR until I was sure what I was doing and Mrs S can use it at partys without it being too bulky .

Hi, I’m looking for a new compact too, I was looking to spend nearer the £150 mark though.

Has anyone had any experience of the Fujifilm FX70 EXR? The specs look great and you can get one for £150 now.

If u can stretch to £215 the Panasonic TZ7 is outstanding kit for the money!
Awesome pictures, super 12x zoom, records HD video, 3 year warranty!
Get it [url= http://www.camerabox.co.uk/product1.asp?productid=6046 ]Here![/url]

Im in same boat dunno what to buy yet..

Steffyboy,that's what i keep looking at,whats it like for action shots,shutter speed? and wonder how substantial it is with biking?

Ixus 970is.

I quite like this..

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_Camera/IXUS/Digital_IXUS_990_IS/index.asp

DJnova - id sell my 2mth old 200EXR for £155 posted - brand new condition/boxed/manuals etc (im buying a GF1 kit for my holidays)

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Looked at the TZ7 not much to choose between them but decided to go for the canon as it has more manual options and that was part of my criteria.

'Blower'

I hav'nt used it much for action shots( has a sports mode with AF tracking options) used it against flying sea-king very good, bought it seeing review at mtbr, [url= http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/top-five-mountain-bike-digital-cameras/ ]here[/url]

steffyboy will it do the job for biking shots though?

Ahh just read the review on the link you sent cheers..
number 5 it is,the Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 beats it to number 3,and some casio at number 4

I've got a TZ7 and I'm a big fan, especially because of the video quality, but it's not small. Basically whenever I'm using the longer zoom of the TZ or the video I'm glad I got it, but all the rest of the time I wish I'd got another Ixus- I had an 800ti which was absolutely superb, and the new ones are very similiar and half the size, very impresive.

Northwind,whats the 800ti?
and was the Ixus- I andy good for video?

Blower, it was just an 800IS in a titanium shell. Actually I think possibly all the UK-spec 800s were the same, mine was an import. Very nice bit of kit, my brother's off round the world with it for the second time, it's the main reason I'm so impressed with Canon- that thing's been dropped from a moving motorbike, filled with rain (in a waterproof pocket which I left open at the top, doh!), left in a muddy field on the west highland way overnight, covered in beer at a bad religion gig, filled with australian dust in a duststorm... It looks like **** but it still works perfectly.

(it had to go back to Canon once after the motorbike incident, the case broke- it was out of warranty and not really economic to repair, but they bodged it back together for me and sent it back with a note "Congratulations, we've never seen one of these broken like this before")

Now, I love my TZ7 but I'd happily guarantee that it won't withstand a tenth as much of that sort of abuse. The Ixus was OK for video, the mic wasn't up to much and it was fairly poor at night. The TZ is almost up to standalone home video camera quality, a wee bit less easy to use though. But still, it forgets it's a compact camera.

Cheers for reply northwind.im gonna go for the tz7 now deffo,you got case with yours for strapping onto camelback? memory card?

Fuji finepix 200exr

er, 865gm isn't exactly "small"....

I've used a Olympus Mju SW (shock & waterproof) for a couple of years, have tested both the shock & waterproofing, works well. Decent enough pictures for very little effort.

Blower, I just use whatever memory cards I have lying around tbh, some sort of Sandisk ultras. For a case I use a Kriega Kube, it's a bit big but it works well and it's protective. There's probably better out there though.

If you can wait a few weeks the new tz8 is out - as the tz7 but a 2.7 screen instead of 3 but it has full manual mode

hmm tz7 will come down in price then..?
just want a good case to strap it to camelback on shoulder.

There's the Lumix FX-550, 12Mp, 5x zoom, face recog, and manual exposure. There will be a TZ-10 coming this yearwith 12x zoom and GPS for geotagging.

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DJnova - id sell my 2mth old 200EXR for £155 posted - brand new condition/boxed/manuals etc (im buying a GF1 kit for my holidays)

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Thanks for the offer, but i don't fancy having a used camera, never sure how they have been treated. 🙂

never sure how they have been treated

honestly, most 2nd hand photo gear is very good - so long as you don't get it off me - my stuff is always seriously abused 🙂