Conners wrote:Did I see thins one in an engineery type magazine or something recently?

ThingOne wrote:

Flyboy wrote:Went into Harvey Norman & JB HiFi this evening. HN had a guy keen on sports photography & immediately pointed us away from the 1100D to the marginally more expensive Nikom D3100.
Both seem pretty cool, but Mrs Flyboy freely admits to being likely to get frustrated with the steep learning curve; for both of those cameras it was reccomended that a basic photography course would help.

The Lumix G3 is on offer at around the $1600 mark, with a few freebies that make it only about $200 more than the more basic two once you add in the bag, SD card that comes bundled with the G3.

So the G3 is at the moment the more popular option for my better half, on looks, ease of use, high quality accessories.

Is any of this making sense & any opinions?

Really does depend what you want to do with it, the G3 still really is a Point and Shoot camera, you will have better photographic options with a SLR full stop.

For that sort of money you cant go past the Canon 60D, that said first you need to make the decision between point and shoot and SLR.

SLRs are leagues ahead for sports photography, high speed shutters/focus etc.
Point and shoots are smaller and I cant speak about the G3, but they usually suffer from some shutter lag which is painful.
And to top it off, the canons take awesome HD Video.

Flyboy wrote:

ThingOne wrote:

Flyboy wrote:Went into Harvey Norman & JB HiFi this evening. HN had a guy keen on sports photography & immediately pointed us away from the 1100D to the marginally more expensive Nikom D3100.
Both seem pretty cool, but Mrs Flyboy freely admits to being likely to get frustrated with the steep learning curve; for both of those cameras it was reccomended that a basic photography course would help.

The Lumix G3 is on offer at around the $1600 mark, with a few freebies that make it only about $200 more than the more basic two once you add in the bag, SD card that comes bundled with the G3.

So the G3 is at the moment the more popular option for my better half, on looks, ease of use, high quality accessories.

Is any of this making sense & any opinions?

Really does depend what you want to do with it, the G3 still really is a Point and Shoot camera, you will have better photographic options with a SLR full stop.

For that sort of money you cant go past the Canon 60D, that said first you need to make the decision between point and shoot and SLR.

SLRs are leagues ahead for sports photography, high speed shutters/focus etc.
Point and shoots are smaller and I cant speak about the G3, but they usually suffer from some shutter lag which is painful.
And to top it off, the canons take awesome HD Video.

Cheers for that ThingOne - got some thinking to do clearly

Flyboy wrote:ended up with a Canon 550D, twin lens kit. nice looking camera, now to get out there & do some playing with it!

RJD wrote:Ah thats a 3 shot (-2,0,+2) bracketed shot hdr'd in photomatix then slight adjustments in photoshop, no way could you take that shot without some kind of extreem processing.

RJD wrote:Ah thats a 3 shot (-2,0,+2) bracketed shot hdr'd in photomatix then slight adjustments in photoshop, no way could you take that shot without some kind of extreem processing.