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What do you use

Poll ended at Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:20 am

Mobile Phone with camera \ Video camera
5
17%
Camcorder \ video camera some take stills some dont
2
7%
Compact \ standard digital cameras
15
52%
SLF \ Larger digital camers with all the lenses and that
7
24%
Still use FILM
0
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What do you use

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OK what equipment do you prefer to use ok I use a Nokia N95 mobile phone it takes 5mp stills and TV quality videos and is a phone so 3 devices all in 1 insted or carrying your heavy camers bag arround with camcorder stills camera and all that.
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My current camera is a compact Casio EX S600, its a good camera overall as its small and produces some fairly good pictures (probably not when compared to the really expensive cameras), although its a lot better than those cheaper cameras around (by this i mean the £20-40 ones which are 3.1 - 5 Megapixels but the camera lenses aren't that good, as i found out with previous cameras). I mainly use it for pictures (but i rarely take the larger shots because of the filesize), and video.

Although i do have plans of getting the Casio EX S880 for the more features it has over the S600, and that it takes both the same SD cards and the same battery (so i'll have a spare!). The main advantage is that its about the size of a credit card (but obviously thicker than one)

(just like the picture below, although mine is blue. I do also have the silver one which still works technically, although i had to replace it because rain got into the lcd screen and it would have costed more than the camera)

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I use a video camera.

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I have a Fuji FinePix S9500 :)

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When I set up my fotopic site in December 2005 (link coming up, or available in the signature), I was using a Kodak CX6330. But in June 2007, I graduated to my present camera, a Fuji Finepix S9600. I still use the Kodak occasionally (when the battery can be bothered to work), and I use both cameras to record video clips for YouTube (channel link in the signature) as well.

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I used a Sony Cybershot from 2006-Summer 2007, now I use a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 for all shots, before that used a camera phone 2004-2006.
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I use a Canon Powershot S2 or a Powershot A460

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Just bought myself an Olympus E510 DSLR with twin lenses. Should get some decent pics with that :)
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Canon EOS 400D with standard 18/55mm lens, also have a Sigma 75-300mm f4/5.6 lens.

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Here are mine:

Camera: Fujifilm F10 (5 megapixels)
Camcorder: Sony HC-30 (MiniDV)

Though I hope to get a Nikon D80 or D200 soon with a 15-70mm lens...
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I use an Olympus SP500-UZ, and when my camera isn't on me i sometimes use the camera on my Sony-Ericsson W850i
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The camera on my BlackBerry 8310 isnt that good, but the GPS can see if a train is speeding :P
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I use my mobile phone which has a 5mp camera TV quality VGA video camera and Internet to upload photos to fotopic on the go quality looks quite good to.
Im using the Nokia N95 at the moment which has Carl zeiss optics and has 10 times digital zoom I dont like digital zoom but some of the photos taken with the zoom look ok but with the the 4GB memoey card you can take 9000 photos so at a steam railway I can take as many as I want and even some movies to.

I do have a cannon powershot thats only 3mp but has 3x optical zoom my dad has a cannon camcorder with 25x optical zoom but the stills it takes are not that good.

Hers what sort of videos you can take on my phone http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=srVH1GVumwc
And some photos taken with it here in my fotopic album http://johncasingena6499.fotoblog.co.uk/c1449770.html only the GCR winter gala photos wore taken using that camera the other taken using a cannon or kodak.
My spec is 9.0ghz 4GB ram High Spec ATI gaming Graphics Card 32" TV as Monitor
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My fotopic album http://johncasingena6499.fotoblog.co.uk/
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