emraphoto
Veteran
a little background. my wifes father used to be a amateur photographer and a pretty capable one as well... he has been very ill for a long time and is on the heart transplant list currently. as of late he seems to have stabilized and regained a portion of his faulty's. he has expressed a renewed interest in photography and has been pouring over my past issues of blackandwhitephotography magazines (uk). we want to buy him a camera. what we need is a compact of the g7, canon s5 kind of genre that has a very easy user interface and comes with exceptionally stable and easy to navigate software to manage photo's. we have set him up on a brand new g5 imac (dual 2 gig) running os x 10.2.4.
he needs a reasonably beefy body to actually hold in his hands yet a very clever point and shoot that will produce images a "photographer" will be happy with. i don't reckon he will do more than download and email etc. although i do want it to produce files that i can run off on the old epson 2200 (with reasonable rersults) should he ask. i will set him p to shoot jpegs as managing and converting raw files will be a bit of a stretch for him. he is in a long term care facility so reasonably high iso performance will be essential (he will be indoors 90% of the time).
so, to recap... a compact, reasonable size and easy to hold on to, easy user interface (with an emphasis on the old school control layout), good high iso performance, good photo software ( i don't want him to have to go from iphoto into another application to resize or send a photo), and great jpeg files.
we are looking to spend about $500 cnd (which is pretty close to $500 US these days)
thanx for your input in advance
john
he needs a reasonably beefy body to actually hold in his hands yet a very clever point and shoot that will produce images a "photographer" will be happy with. i don't reckon he will do more than download and email etc. although i do want it to produce files that i can run off on the old epson 2200 (with reasonable rersults) should he ask. i will set him p to shoot jpegs as managing and converting raw files will be a bit of a stretch for him. he is in a long term care facility so reasonably high iso performance will be essential (he will be indoors 90% of the time).
so, to recap... a compact, reasonable size and easy to hold on to, easy user interface (with an emphasis on the old school control layout), good high iso performance, good photo software ( i don't want him to have to go from iphoto into another application to resize or send a photo), and great jpeg files.
we are looking to spend about $500 cnd (which is pretty close to $500 US these days)
thanx for your input in advance
john