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Dimage Z2, Dimage Z1, Canon S1 IS, Kodak DX6490 & HP945

Sep 28, 2004 6:27AM PDT

Optical zoom X 10 is important to me.
I need some assistance to decide between these models

Which one give the best results answering the following questions:
1. how well the sensor handled in low light?
2. how well the auto-focus worked and also how well it worked in low light?
3. minimal 'shutter lag respond '?

I read quite several reviews but can't come up with a decision.

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Re: Dimage Z2, Dimage Z1, Canon S1 IS, Kodak DX6490 & HP945
Sep 28, 2004 10:04AM PDT

Kodak just announced the successor to the DX6490, the DX7590.

Kodak has been making a big effort on their newer cameras to reduce the time for "click-to-capture".
Their specifications for the DX7590 is 0.2 seconds.
That would be the fastest 10X camera so far.

To achieve that kind of speed, the autofocus has to be good and fast.

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Re: Dimage Z2, Dimage Z1, Canon S1 IS, Kodak DX6490 & HP945
Sep 29, 2004 6:43AM PDT

I would recommend the Cannon S1 IS
Why
Image Stablization. When you have a Zoom that large on a small digital camera you are bound to have some camera shake. Cannon's Image Stablization (only Cannon lenses have this)corrects for the motion of the camera. I take pictures with my older SLR with out Image Stablization and what a difference it makes when compared to my daugher's Cannon with IS. We shoot lots of sporting events and I see the difference. Yes if the pictures don't come out you can throw them away but you can never recreate the shot because it got blurred. My daughter bought an Olympics Digital when they first got into Digital because it had a Cannon 10x lense on it with Image Stablization and it beats every thing on the market at that time because of the lense. It wasn't a high Megapixel but it had Image Stablization. I always put the quality of the lense higher than other features of the camera.

Infact I can't wait for the Cannon Digital SLR body to drop in price a little more so we can get the Big Lense 70-300 on to a Digital body. 10x is good but a real SLR is so so much better. Hope this helps.

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Re: Dimage Z2, Dimage Z1, Canon S1 IS, Kodak DX6490 & HP945
Sep 30, 2004 4:00PM PDT

There is now a Dimage Z3 that also has anti shake.
Larry