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Would like your valued opinion on my 1st purchase!

by reefypoopoo Jun 7, 2008 10:42PM PDT

I'm buying my first digital camera and have done a lot of reading. There are a few things I'm looking for/at and would like your valued opinions. Keep in mind I'm looking to stay under $200.00.

First - an optical zoom greater than 3x

Second - Optical Image Stabilizer

Third - one that makes great videos

Fourth - compact

There are so many out there but it appears that in my price range the Fuji Finepix z100fd and the Panasonic Lumix dmc-lz8 both meet my needs. The only diferences I see is that the Fuji runs video in AVI, and has an internal lens while the Panasonic runs video in Quiktime and has a telescopic lens, it also has the AF assist light.

I guess my first question is which do you prefer? And second, should I also be looking at something else?

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Maybe look at others

by kalel33-20416052469708587370302374692233 Jun 8, 2008 4:03AM PDT

I would look at the Fuji F100fd instead of the Z series. Here is a video of the Z100fd that was pretty decent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWHp2WpCa08

The Panasonic is a little bit slow for my taste.

The Sony DSC-200 is a pretty good camera for what your asking for. The Canon SD series are very good also, but they're 4x zoom compared to the others 5x zooms.

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