Its my Birthday on Saturday.....Happy Birthday to me.... come on sing along.
Anyway i have been going out alot to lakes taking pictures, i am no David Bailey but the camera i am using at the moment (Dont laugh) is a Finepix A202. Its only 2 megapixel and has 5 flash modes and i think 2 picture modes not sure.
Anyway its been a good little camera really when in the garden or house etc, but when i am going to the lake and i take pictures they come out very dark and gloomy, even though its not dark and gloomy outside. Trees in the background have no structure, they appear black etc. Even on the maximum quality setting. If things are close up its ok, up to 10-20 feet etc.
Now my Girlfriend said she would get me a camera for my Birthday which is why i need advice. I have no idea of what camera will be best for what i want to do so i will just explain what i want to do.
When i am outside, cloudy or not, i want to take a picture and be able to pick up the trees in the background as i see them with my eyes, even if they are 1/2 a mile away, i dont want to see just black shapes of trees etc.
Now she can only really afford £150 and she has to get it from a catalogue, she might go to £180 i dont know, lets just say top end is £180.
This is the catalogue she has to get it out of with the cameras on it, can anyone tell me which is the best camera for what i want to do?
http://www.grattan.co.uk/Web/main/pr...P%5FMasterItem
Also do these cameras come with memory sticks or do you have to buy them seperate?
The one she was looking at was DIGIMAX S700 Which seems really good but it only has 20mb Internal memory, which at max setting only takes 11 pictures. This finepix cam came with 16gb Memory stick.
Anyway any help is much appreciated as i know sod all about cameras.