Best Digital P & S for wife?

[Bill58]

If we're not careful this could degrade till we have a "what's the best p&s for YOUR MOM" thread...



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I really apologize if it tended to sound sexist because it wasn't intended to be, but my wife just happens to be a female. ...........a thousand pardons to the PC police.

 

[Contarama]

I gave my wife (the anti camera woman) an old Sony P&S one time...she took a few pictures of our sons...and then began to use it strictly to film her physics experiments which she (happy as a lark I may add) has me view I presume so she can show me what a genius she is...LOL. It found a home in her bag where it still stays along with her calculator and the mechanical pencil I gave her.

I would say make sure it does video and has a bad to the bone memory card!

 

[taskoni]

My wife carry a Lumix TZ10 in her purse and she's happy with it.

 

[__--]

I really apologize if it tended to sound sexist because it wasn't intended to be, but my wife just happens to be a female. ...........a thousand pardons to the PC police.

"PC police": what a "cute" way to formulate an offensive response, but if that makes you feel good, knock yourself out. There is nothing about political correctness above, but writing "my wife happens to be a woman" and the lack of intention of sexism doesn't negate the tonedeafness. Perhaps the best example of this tonedeafness or obtusenss I can think has to do with racism: I have a friend who is an "ABC" (American-born Chinese) — she once told me how sometimes when she was introduced to someone he or she would say, "Oh, I just love Chinese food" and my friend commented that, when the same person met a French women, he or she would not say, "Oh, I love French food", the point obviously being that her being Chinese was the first thing that person meeting her could think.

Obviously, there is no overt or intended sexism in the original posting, but the idea that the statement "the camera is for my wife" being an adaquate specification that should elicit useful responses, which one sees all over photo forums, where in effect, people speak of cameras "for the little woman", says enough in itself — it's the equivalent of saying, "I love Chinese food" when being introduced to a Chinese.

—Mitch/Pak Nam Pran
Around Chiang Mai

 

[ashfaque]

If she likes to play around with some manual features then I'd say give her an LX5. If she prefers something slightly more portable one then S95. I've bought LX5. It is a wonderful camera. 🙂

 

[rondo]

Ps. Even a worse variation of these threads:
Guys, time for an upgrade...the JYZ-1 goes to the wife...should I get the JYZ-2 or...

 

[Richard G]

My wife appreciates a good picture and likes to have a camera that makes them. She does not want more than point and shoot. My daughter wanted a film SLR which I got for her, a man's camera, Nikon F3HP. But I also bought her a Lumix TZ7 and my wife a Samsung with a Schenider lens. I think a lot of men just want point and shoot and a lot of wives. Not to acknowledge the differences is pointless and patronizing. Asians have traits they happily attribute to themselves, as do the French, and to acknowledge this is no more racist than it is sexist to buy your wife a good point and shoot. I have seen sexism on the forums but I don't think the OP strayed there at all until his post about female gender. In that wonderful thread on the worst words in photography there were some terrific wife quotes. A wife is not merely a woman, she has a much higher status.

 

[Colin Corneau]

"PC police": what a "cute" way to formulate an offensive response, but if that makes you feel good, knock yourself out. There is nothing about political correctness above, but writing "my wife happens to be a woman" and the lack of intention of sexism doesn't negate the tonedeafness. Perhaps the best example of this tonedeafness or obtusenss I can think has to do with racism: I have a friend who is an "ABC" (American-born Chinese) — she once told me how sometimes when she was introduced to someone he or she would say, "Oh, I just love Chinese food" and my friend commented that, when the same person met a French women, he or she would not say, "Oh, I love French food", the point obviously being that her being Chinese was the first thing that person meeting her could think.

Obviously, there is no overt or intended sexism in the original posting, but the idea that the statement "the camera is for my wife" being an adaquate specification that should elicit useful responses, which one sees all over photo forums, where in effect, people speak of cameras "for the little woman", says enough in itself — it's the equivalent of saying, "I love Chinese food" when being introduced to a Chinese.

—Mitch/Pak Nam Pran
Around Chiang Mai

Seriously, get a cold cloth and apply to forehead with bedrest until this passes.

There was nothing sexist about the question...plenty of people want simple P&S cameras that are small and light (I'm among them), so the OP was quite fair.
It's a question that could apply to plenty of others and most people here just want to help out and talk shop. So, let's all play nice and not assume the worst alla time.

 

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...A wife is not merely a woman, she has a much higher status.

So, in other words, "some of my best friends are wives" — is that the phrase that you're groping for?

—Mitch/Pak Nam Pran
Around Chuang Mai

 

[Pablito]

My daughter wanted a film SLR which I got for her, a man's camera, Nikon F3HP.

Please explain how that got to be a "man's camera."

I always thought it was a woman's camera.

 

[Richard G]

Sorry Pablito, it was irony. Who says any camera should be a man's camera indeed was my point. It was what I could find the day before her birthday, it was a late model, it was in perfect condition, it has a great reputation, it had a great lens and it even came with a case in very good condition. I didn't hesitate. She loves it. And I am not allowed to use it. She finds the OMs too fiddly!

 

[gilpen123]

Didn't we call a camera she?

 

[efirmage]

I'd go with a Canon Powershot S95, personally. Most all of the features of the G series in a much more pocketable format. Good quality, features. Cheap. Small.

Fantastic camera. I use that as my "toy" camera, alongside my Leica.

 

[River Dog]

I would also vote for the LX5 - it is a little gem but the lens cap can be annoying.