melliott1963
Established Member
Hi.
After several years of good service, my Minolta A1 has died and I've been told by Jessops that they can no longer get parts to repair. Not too worried about this because it gives me a good excuse to buy a new toy
It's been a while since I looked at cameras so am looking for advice. Here's my requirements at present.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
After several years of good service, my Minolta A1 has died and I've been told by Jessops that they can no longer get parts to repair. Not too worried about this because it gives me a good excuse to buy a new toy
It's been a while since I looked at cameras so am looking for advice. Here's my requirements at present.
- It's probably stating the obvious, but my number one priority is image quality.
- I don't want to move up to an SLR, but also don't want a tiny compact
- It needs a simple 'point and click' operation (for my wife), and well as the ability to set things manually - focus, shutter speed etc.
- I'd like a good size optical zoom lense, but also one which starts fairly wide. I've seen quite a lot that start around 35mm equiv, but would prefer somewhere nearer 28mm.
- Obviously, with a large zoom lense, some form of image stabilisation would be prefered (unless they all come with it these days).
- A decent flash or the ability to take an external flash gun.
- I have no particular budget in mind - If I see a camera that meets my requirements and that I'm happy with, I'm fairly certain that I'll be able to afford it.
- I used to like Fuji cameras but, when I bought my Minolta, was put off them because even on the finest jpeg setting, Fuji tended to use a lot of compression which showed digital artifacts especially in, for example. clear blue skies. Looking at the Fuji specification for the S9600 it would appear that this is still the case.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.