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mtlndg   10-01-2007 at 06:34:38 PM

hi,
i am looking for a good cannon point and shoot digital cam that are good with "ACTION SHOTS"......
looking in the price range of about 300 $ (canadian)
would guys know any good ones ?

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g-paw   10-01-2007 at 10:59:35 PM
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Canon and Panasonic both get good reviews for most of there cameras. Here are some good review sites. Depending on how close you can get to the subject you might want to consider a camera with at least 10 to 12X optical zoom
The 2 best are the Panasonic Z8 and the Canon S5IS. What's important is the Optical zoom and you should avoid the Digital zoom because it will adversely affect the image. In fact, you're best off disabling the Digital zoom. For action photos time between shots will be important. Any of these sites will discuss all this.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/
http://www.imaging-resource.com/
http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/

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gigman   10-17-2007 at 08:17:21 AM
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Sony has some quality compact point and shoot cameras.

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danmarhk   12-10-2007 at 02:20:16 PM
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If you want action shot, Panasonic and Canon are good choices for the anti-shake function. However, if you want a compact snap-shot camera, just buy one Casio Exilim.
Nikon is another good snap-shot camera.

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copasetic   06-09-2008 at 09:46:57 PM
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Most Canon point and shoots (including the S5IS) will run CHDK, a very handy firmware enhancement that gives you access to all kinds of new features. You can even download scripts to do things like motion detection, timed exposures, automatic bracketing etc.

Minimum exposure time with CHDK is 1/10,000 second, though the image quality will obviously be pretty bad.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief

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c0mp4ter   06-16-2008 at 04:32:00 PM
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canon a650 IS i think it is good
here is a review from Cnet:
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-ca [...] prod.txt.1

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dudu125   07-19-2008 at 04:01:02 PM
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You could go to ebay have a look or some website like this one:
http://www.onvon.com/digital-camer [...] l?skey=c02

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