Olympus FE-300 12.0 Megapixel digital camera
Canon SD1000 7.1 Megapixel Digital ELPH.
I bought the Olympus first, as the price was amazing for a 12 MP camera. I figured out very quickly why. Not only does it take XD cards, which no other camera uses except a couple of Fujis, it takes forever to take a picture and the picture quality is CRAP. There is so much noise in an indoor picture that it's intolerable. I was horribly disappointed. The picture was so grainy and the color was so crappy.. Even the focus was terrible. The only part of the picture in focus was the center of the picture. Everything else was almost blurry.
Terrible, terrible camera.
I took it back this evening and exchanged it for the Canon. The difference between them is night and day. The picture quality on the Canon is excellent. The colors are very believable. They are not grainy and the whole subject is in focus. The face tracking technology works extremely well. Even with digital zoom, which in the past was a tricky business, the picture turns out perfectly.
The camera powers on instantly, it takes seconds to take and save a picture, it uses SD, it comes with a 32 MB SD card (although I purchased 2 x 2 GB cards for $25 for the pair on sale). A slight jitter in your hand doesn't render the picture all blurry.
For a value camera it's perfect. It's not packed with features or anything, but it has all the features I need. I highly recommend it for the casual photographer.
Canon SD1000 7.1 Megapixel Digital ELPH.
I bought the Olympus first, as the price was amazing for a 12 MP camera. I figured out very quickly why. Not only does it take XD cards, which no other camera uses except a couple of Fujis, it takes forever to take a picture and the picture quality is CRAP. There is so much noise in an indoor picture that it's intolerable. I was horribly disappointed. The picture was so grainy and the color was so crappy.. Even the focus was terrible. The only part of the picture in focus was the center of the picture. Everything else was almost blurry.
Terrible, terrible camera.
I took it back this evening and exchanged it for the Canon. The difference between them is night and day. The picture quality on the Canon is excellent. The colors are very believable. They are not grainy and the whole subject is in focus. The face tracking technology works extremely well. Even with digital zoom, which in the past was a tricky business, the picture turns out perfectly.
The camera powers on instantly, it takes seconds to take and save a picture, it uses SD, it comes with a 32 MB SD card (although I purchased 2 x 2 GB cards for $25 for the pair on sale). A slight jitter in your hand doesn't render the picture all blurry.
For a value camera it's perfect. It's not packed with features or anything, but it has all the features I need. I highly recommend it for the casual photographer.
My 5MP Panasonic can keep up with some 6-7MP cameras. And my new Nikon...well that's a SLR so it's kind of in a league of it's own ^^;
