Please help me choose a digital camera!

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xti? lol, if your gonna spend the money to get a g7 u might as well step up to some slr, which in all honesty will be the best way to go, i got my xti for 750 shipped brand new in box, u can prob get an xt pretty cheap. but otherwise i'd prob say the g7 is the best of those cameras

I got a G7.. Satisfied=Yes for a couple of weeks. Now I'm wanting a dslr. . . Nah, seriously, if you want something to be compact enough and has what it takes for, a G7 is very good. I am very happy with mine. do your homework before buying one. Check out dpreview.com It's a very informative site and hopefully it helps. hehe, The reason I want a dslr is because I want a new toy..haha. . . I need more experiment on new stuff.. But the G7 is still my baby up to this msg is written. I bring it everywhere I go.

wxchick_H3 wrote in post #2490807
I am looking to buy a new digital camera, and im not sure which one to get. Please help me, i would really appreciate any advice that y'all have.

I am looking for a digital camera that i can take pictures of moving objects...one of my problems with my 35mm Canon camera was that when i took pictures at a recent offroading event i went to, most came out blurry.... i would like to eliminate the blurryness.... now the question is which camera will do that?

I have been looking at the following:

A640, but noticed it does not have image stabilization, but does have ISO... is that the same.

A710, it says that it is the first in the "A" series to have image stabilization.

S3 IS and the S2 IS.... i have read reviews saying that they are basically the same.

G7, i heard was a good camera too.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER DIGITAL CAMERAS THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR TAKING OFFROADING PICTURES? WHICH ONE OF THE ABOVE CAMERAS ABOVE WOULD YOU SAY IS THE BEST?

IS does not help eliminating subject movement.
Of the above camera's I would suggest the S3 IS.
2 weeks ago I held the G7 and the S3 IS in my hand
and did choose the S3.

Like other members mentioned maybe it's better to
give a DSLR a closer look.

Good luck.

If you were getting blurry pictures with an SLR they could have been for several reasons:
1) Too slow a shutter speed to stop motion of the vehicles. If this was the problem, anything but the cars would be reasonably sharp. The solution is to use a faster shutter speed; you might need to use a higher ISO film, or higher ISO setting on a digital camera. But try for at least 1/250 sec. If the subject's moving from side to side, you'll need a higher speed than if it's moving right at you.

2) Too slow a shutter speed resulting in camera shake. You'd notice everything, including stationary things, being blurred, possibly showing blurring iin one direction (corresponding to your shake). Minimum recommended shutter speed is 1/(35 mm equiv. focal length) to minimize camera shake problems; or use a tripod. Shutter speed in the range noted in cause 1 should help here, too.

3) Out of focus. Your subject will be blurry, but something in front of or behind it may be sharp. If you have an auto-focus camera, it may not be fast enough to maintain focus on the moving subject, or you may be locking focus on a different object than you think you are, or the camera or lens may need calibrating. Or the subject may have moved between the time you locked focus and you took the picture (this would apply with manual focus cameras as well).

Moving to a P&S camera won't help with any of these. In fact, it'd probably be worse, since the smaller cameras are harder to hold steady and they just aren't as fast to respond as SLRs. If you got a CD along with your prints, could you post an example of the problem? It'll help us with the diagnosis.

ISO isn't the same as IS; ISO is the "film" speed and corresponds to the ISO rating of the film you buy for your current film camera. It stands for "International Organization for Standardization/Orgais​ation Internationale de Normalisation", which is the organization maintaining, among other things, the standard for photographic material sensitivity. IS is "Image Stabilization", which will help with the problem described in my possibility 2) above, but won't help with subject motion or with the image being out of focus.

Stop motion of a moving object requires fast shutter speed and fast lenses for which none of the P&S is capable of. The most important factor necesary to achieve faster shutter speed is more light or higher ISO. For that most P&S Cams pretty much will fall short on. Canon DSLR are known for their ability to shoot at high ISO with relatively low noise by comparison to other Manufactures. The last item you need is an accurate and fast AF system that will be able to focus lock and track the subject as it moves across you and this is another thing that Canon DSLR can do very well.

lostdoggy wrote in post #2495906
Stop motion of a moving object requires fast shutter speed and fast lenses for which none of the P&S is capable of. The most important factor necesary to achieve faster shutter speed is more light or higher ISO. For that most P&S Cams pretty much will fall short on. Canon DSLR are known for their ability to shoot at high ISO with relatively low noise by comparison to other Manufactures. The last item you need is an accurate and fast AF system that will be able to focus lock and track the subject as it moves across you and this is another thing that Canon DSLR can do very well.

I agree that if you really want to stop moving objects, you are going to need a DSLR camera but beware of cost of lenses etc. That is what's stopping me from upgrading from my S2. My S2 has performed better than expected in every situation that I've been in so far except for fast action in low light situations.

If I'm not mistaken, the Rebel XT's are selling at under US500 recently. It might be a good choice. One of my friends owns one and he is happy with it. While the thing I noice this far about it is the ISO. I would conclude that XT's ISO 800 much more like G7's ISO 400(quality). (That's what I've noticed).

penyuijo wrote in post #2496310
If I'm not mistaken, the Rebel XT's are selling at under US500 recently. It might be a good choice. One of my friends owns one and he is happy with it. While the thing I noice this far about it is the ISO. I would conclude that XT's ISO 800 much more like G7's ISO 400(quality). (That's what I've noticed).

Cheapest I've seen XT's (with lens) in the US recently was ~$550 from an authorized Canon dealer. Ebay is another story.

And I agree, if your willing to shell out enough for a G7, you might as well add a few extra bucks and buy an XT. Unless you need a compact camera, that is. good luck

You can also try to compare high ISO photos here:
http://highiso.net/can​on/

E.g. G7 is not so bad..(at least ISO 800 and above)