Anything wrong with the PowerShot SX10 IS ???

[ruben]

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c...&fcategoryid=225&modelid=17630#ModelDetailAct

a) I am a first class ignorant about digital cameras. Yet I have been looking for the lowest priced one including a decent viewfinder with diopter correction and this one, so it seems to me has up to +1.5. Much more pricy cameras hardly match this viewfinder.

b) It is not a dslr, true, but it seems to me very low priced $400 in the USA and the same in Israel. Here I can pay at 36 months quotas without any interest rate.

c) Size, weight, batteries, innovations - all look outstandly great for the bucks. Beyond the bucks

Kindly look at the tech description, either hereabove or elsewhere - Since I have no real experience here: Am I missing something for considering this an outstanding opportunity ?

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[imajypsee]

you'll like the articulated LCD screen

you'll like the articulated LCD screen

and I would like the video... If it helps, the first digital camera I ever bought was a new Sony DSC-70 (or some such indicator), 3mp, and SLLOOOOWWWW shutter lag. It cost me over $900.00 in 2000 or thereabouts. I've printed this photo at 8X10 (probably bigger, can't recall) and it looks good.


Personally, I wouldn't bother with a digicam; I'd buy a decent DSLR and kit lens. You can always add glass, but a digicam (one piece camera) is a paperweight after a while. An even better idea is to buy a used DSLR (I'd go for the micro 4/3 body because you can get an adapter and put M mount glass on it, or use a LTM to M mount adapter with aforementioned adapter and use your LTM glass) (OR, you could get a used Pentax K10D and put all sorts of lenses on it).

You can look at over 7000 photos made with the camera you're thinking of buying here:
http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/powershot_sx10_is
HTH,

Mary in SW Florida, USA