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revrnd Senior Enthusiast

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I'm thinking of upgrading to the S5000 from my 2600Zoom. I like this little camera, but it is of limited use for action shots & the zoom is insufficient for long shots. I'll still use it on my snowmobiling & camping trips as it is easily packed away.

 

Does anyone have any experience w/ the S5000? I'll be using it @ NASCAR, NHRA & snowcross events. W/ this camera, you can manually override the shutter speed for action shots. Plus the zoom is comparable to that of my Minolta 35 mm SLR.

 

Any input would be appreciated.

revrnd Senior Enthusiast

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Z71, thanks for the suggestion :thumbs: Someone else on another site suggested it to me. I had forgotten about it. I found it when I was checking into buying the 2600Z.

 

A good site for digital camera info.

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I have a 3800. The xd card are nice.

THe only problem is getting action pics I always seem to miss the pic that I wanted

Is there a camera that has a faster shutter speed that does not cost an arm & leg

revrnd Senior Enthusiast

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The S5000 has a manual shutter mode so you can select the shutter speed. I took some pics beside a freeway yesterday using 1/500 & the pics turned out great.

 

The camera is 549 in Canadian pesos :thumbs: I checked & the US price is between 3 & 400 bucks.

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Dihappy Enthusiast

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Im getting the S7000.

 

Id save the money and spring for the 7000, not that much more really, and the difference i think is big.

tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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I have the s7000 take great pics at 6 mp, and the zoom is incredible. Well worth the money, and right now it's cheap at costco only 500 bones....not to shabby for a good digital SLR. The display on the back of the camera is crystal clear too....very nice :sigh:

 

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Dihappy Enthusiast

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I have the s7000 take great pics at 6 mp, and the zoom is incredible. Well worth the money, and right now it's cheap at costco only 500 bones....not to shabby for a good digital SLR. The display on the back of the camera is crystal clear too....very nice :sigh:

 

Costco

Sweet!!

 

Have you messed with the manual features much?

 

How good does the CCD HR make the 6 look like 12 mil pixels?

 

I cant wait :)

tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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I have messed with the manual functions a bit, my 35mm camera is a Nikon F3, and I just have to get used to using the digital manually, I have not messed around with the 12mp interpolated pictures yet. I got it a day before I left to go get married and I didn't want to screw any pics up while I was there, So I pretty much let the auto features do all the work...once I get a chance to read the manual and mess around it should be pretty good. I was on my balcony messing around with it, and in 1mp mode and full zoom, you could basically read the labels on the backs of the bikini clad girls on the beach :sigh:

 

I think a real plus with this camera is the software that comes with it. It's really cool....I just ordered 2 prints of some pics I took with it from Fuji just to see what kind of quality I could get out of an 8x10 at 6mp. I am a hard core fan of 35mm film, I like the control I have over it, and the quality. But I have to say, when I can take a picture in doors with 800 ISO film, and then go outside and switch to 100 ISO on the digital it, get's me going. I would post an example pic that I took, but the 6 mp pictures are about 4 megs and it would be worthless to shrink them down.

 

Another piece of advice...just go ahead and spring for the 512mb XD card when you get it, don't screw around with the microdrives....aparently they break when you sneeze to hard.

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But I have to say, when I can take a picture in doors with 800 ISO film, and then go outside and switch to 100 ISO on the digital it, get's me going. 

 

 

Another piece of advice...just go ahead and spring for the 512mb XD card when you get it, don't screw around with the microdrives....aparently they break when you sneeze to hard.

Thats exactly what im talkin about!!

 

ISO changes on the fly rock!!!

 

 

 

Yup, but dont they offer a 1gig now?? :)

 

 

 

The XDs arent that bad, ive dropped mine a few times, by itself and in my 2650 :sigh:

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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You guys are giving me camera-envy.

 

I only have the 3800....I thought it was a great camera, until now.

 

 

Thanks a lot. :sigh:

tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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you can use a 1 gig micro drive in the s7000 but the largest xd card you can use is 512, but it holds 339 6mp pics so that's plenty enough for me, I was in the bahamas for a week and took pics of everything and only managed to take 140.

revrnd Senior Enthusiast

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Im getting the S7000.

 

Id save the money and spring for the 7000, not that much more really, and the difference i think is big.

Up here in Canada the S7000 is almost double the price of the S5000. $999 CDN vs $530 CDN. That's an amount of money I can't justify spending on a camera.

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