RMD: small digital camera

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:50 am 0

Looking for a small, light digital camera for a present. Preferably the sort of thing that could easily be chucked in a handbag with god knows what else but still produce decent pictures. Mac-compatibility is a must. Some degree of optical zoomage is preferable. Thinking of paying around the Â£100-Â£150 mark.

Ta.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:15 am 0

A friend of mine has one of these, it has an internal zoom lens, and the back
is a very solid curve of metal. It feels way more substantal than it looks.
A Z3 or Z2 would be the current equivalent and should fit your price range.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-c ... film-Z1/p1

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:31 am 0

The Casio Exilim range are small enough.

Dunno about the software being OSX friendly though, as I use my old Fuji digicam software instead.

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:36 am 0

Panasonic Lumix FX07 is a very nice little camera.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:33 pm 0

Not so keen on the Fujis as I've had a bad track record with them in the past. The Exilim and Lumix look the business though.

fihu · Post by **fihu** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:02 pm 0

Go for an Exilim EX-S[number], e.g.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-c ... EX-S770/p1

EX-S's are *very* small and fast. Image quality is OK for its size and all have a superb video mode. Some of the new Exilims record straight to DIVX, and because of this, Casio has restricted their movie mode to 15 minutes of continuous shooting.

Recharge only via the included cradle though. No problems with OSX, but I dont use the software, it's mounted as an external drive.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:43 pm 0

I've got a Canon Ixus 60. It's *tiny* but takes really good pics

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-IXUS-Digi ... 704&sr=8-1

SD cards to so picture space is dirty cheap

MrsSnake · Post by **MrsSnake** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:55 pm 0

Just got my mum a Canon Powershot A550 for her birthday, to replace the cheap piece of crap she was using here on holiday!. It's a smaller version of our A630, but it's still lovely. Weighs a lot less than ours too

Mac compatible

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-PowerShot ... 766&sr=1-5

Rhythm · Post by **Rhythm** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:07 pm 0

Another vote for Casio Exilims. The missus has a Z750 and the pics it takes are fecking stunning. Proper 30fps 640x480 video too

piku · Post by **piku** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:23 pm 0

Pentax Optio W10. It's about the size of a camera-phone, made of metal, has a zoom lens and is totally 100% water, dust and crap proof.

You can drop them off mountains and they still work afterwards.

And it appears as a USB drive to the computer, or you can just take out the SD card. It's nice because everything is sealed away, there's no lens that pokes out the front and it takes rather good pictures.

See...

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:23 pm 0

Another vote for Canon here, picked up a Powershot A530 last year and totally love it, one of the best cams I have ever owned.

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:04 pm 0

Don't have anything in particular to recommend as I tend to pay more for my cameras, but I doubt there's a compact camera that won't work with OS X, either over a USB cable or a card reader. Even higher end more specialised cameras mostly just work - e.g. since I think 10.4.7 OS X recognises the raw format of my Sony Alpha SLR, so I can view pics in both iPhoto and Preview.

PinkFearie · Post by **PinkFearie** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:56 pm 0

sony t5, 5mpixels, same size as a motorola v3

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:44 pm 0

MrsSnake wrote:Just got my mum a Canon Powershot A550 for her birthday, to replace the cheap piece of crap she was using here on holiday!. It's a smaller version of our A630, but it's still lovely. Weighs a lot less than ours too

In the end I got her an A640 after some consultation. Although the little light ones would be nice and easy to carry everywhere it was more important that it takes excellent pics. She once owned an old 2MP PowerShot and really loved it.

It's certainly not small, but the pics are outstanding and there's a massive range of options. I got it for Â£180 from Amazon when there was a Â£60 cashback offer on the most recent bank holiday weekend.