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| You may want to check out the Coolpix 4500. It has a viewfinder (in bright sunlight it's almost impossible to see - let alone judge - the image on an LCD screen) and a modest movie-mode. |
What are the diffs between the Coolpix 3500 and 4500? And the price too! Is it that much more expensive. 500$ (Cdn) which is what L.L.Lozeau in Montreal are selling it for is basically the highest I'm willing to pay for a Digital Camera considering all the accessoiries I'll have to buy with it (2nd battery, 128 Megs CF card and carrying case)
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| And once you're accustomed to the revolving body, you'll probably love it. Gives you access under all sorts of circumstances/angles and appears to be very "handy" (great feel, simple handling). |
I know, I can understand the benifits but it just seems odd at first.
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| the problem with view finders on almost ALL digital camera's except for SLR models is you're not looking through the lens of the camera so framing the shot with a view finder can be inaccurate, with the LCD you're seeing the Image the CCD is seeing as it will be saved which is just like looking through an SLR so I like it alot better, the battery last's quite a while aroun 80 minutes or so depending on Flash use, there is a AC/DC adapter available for about 20 bux, and an extra battery will run you around 20 bux as well. My only beef with the camera was no TV out, CF type 1 only so no using the Micro Drives in it, and thats bout it. other than that I love it, its small, light, takes great shots which I'll post some up tonight went to bed way early last night, and the swivel is great especially in crowds cuz you can hold it over the crowd still see the screen and take a picture. |
The parallax error thing is not an issue except for close-ups but what makes it useless is when you use the zoom (Whether it's Optical And/Or Digital) so that's why I'll just use the LCD. As for battery length, that 80 minutes is total time using the LCD screen, browsing menus and taking pictures right? If I set the auto-off power save mode to the shortest setting I should be able to lasts rather long? With 2 batteries I should be fine I guess.
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