Jay H
Senior HTF Member
A friend of mine is really interested in getting a digicam for hiking. She wants to have something compact, runs on AA batteries, has video recording capabilities AND audio and is a good camera.
I told her the Canon A75 is a nice camera that satisfies all the needs but think I want to tell her a variety that she can pick. I was looking at some of the really small ones such as the
Nikon Coolpix 3100
Minolta DiMage X31
It seems that both of them do not record Audio, the DiMage X31 looks really interesting as it has a funky non-telescoping lens for the 3X optical zoom, has a built in lens cover whic is nice. All run on AA batteries. The Minolta doesn't have a video out, which I tend to use alot when I'm over friends to do a slide show... The A75 is probably the largest of them, and the heaviest of them, bein that it takes 4 AA batteries.
I haven't had a chance to check out the Fuji, Kodak, Epson, etc offerings, anybody have any good input on cameras? She seems to really want the ability to record audio too but I'm open to all suggestions...
Jay
I told her the Canon A75 is a nice camera that satisfies all the needs but think I want to tell her a variety that she can pick. I was looking at some of the really small ones such as the
Nikon Coolpix 3100
Minolta DiMage X31
It seems that both of them do not record Audio, the DiMage X31 looks really interesting as it has a funky non-telescoping lens for the 3X optical zoom, has a built in lens cover whic is nice. All run on AA batteries. The Minolta doesn't have a video out, which I tend to use alot when I'm over friends to do a slide show... The A75 is probably the largest of them, and the heaviest of them, bein that it takes 4 AA batteries.
I haven't had a chance to check out the Fuji, Kodak, Epson, etc offerings, anybody have any good input on cameras? She seems to really want the ability to record audio too but I'm open to all suggestions...
Jay