nick_sixx
16th August 2011, 10:43 PM
Im going to America this november and visiting areas where it will be snowing, and I am off to Fiji in December for a couple of weeks. Never in my life have I considered buying my own digital camera, but I would really like one for these two trips, and I need one that is pretty darn waterproof.
My two picks so far are:
Sony Cybershot tx10:
http://www.sony.com.au/product/dsc-tx10
(Obiously not the pink one)
and
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT2
http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/ts2_ft2/
The first one is by far the better looking device, but I would be a lot more comfortable with the ruggedness of the Lumix. There is also the Lumix FT3, but it is quite a bit more expensive for not much more in terms of features - so I am disregarding it.
I need somebody who has experience with cameras to tell me which one is going to take better quality pictures for the majority of settings (ie night/day/indoors/underwater/etc).
So far my main pro's for the Cybershot are:
-Way better looking/much slimmer (ie better pocketability)
-Higher resolution photos
-Higher resolution videos
-Higher resolution screen
-1cm macro
-Lens is protected when not in use
Pro's for Lumix:
-Much more rugged - it comes with a silicone case so I would be much more comfortable throwing this in my bag/keeping it by the pool on bricks/rough concrete
- Waterproof to 10m compared to the cybershot's 5m
- Slightly cheaper
- Better zoom (4.6 compared to 4)
-Easier to use (my parents have a cheap panasonic secondary camera which has a 'happy mode' - it seriously makes it the easiest camera to use in any setting and the FT2 has the same feature).
Please camera gurus, guide me! And if I have missed any obvious candidates, please inform me (not interested in the Olympus Mju range as they apparently take crap photos and are the size of a house brick)
My two picks so far are:
Sony Cybershot tx10:
http://www.sony.com.au/product/dsc-tx10
(Obiously not the pink one)
and
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT2
http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/ts2_ft2/
The first one is by far the better looking device, but I would be a lot more comfortable with the ruggedness of the Lumix. There is also the Lumix FT3, but it is quite a bit more expensive for not much more in terms of features - so I am disregarding it.
I need somebody who has experience with cameras to tell me which one is going to take better quality pictures for the majority of settings (ie night/day/indoors/underwater/etc).
So far my main pro's for the Cybershot are:
-Way better looking/much slimmer (ie better pocketability)
-Higher resolution photos
-Higher resolution videos
-Higher resolution screen
-1cm macro
-Lens is protected when not in use
Pro's for Lumix:
-Much more rugged - it comes with a silicone case so I would be much more comfortable throwing this in my bag/keeping it by the pool on bricks/rough concrete
- Waterproof to 10m compared to the cybershot's 5m
- Slightly cheaper
- Better zoom (4.6 compared to 4)
-Easier to use (my parents have a cheap panasonic secondary camera which has a 'happy mode' - it seriously makes it the easiest camera to use in any setting and the FT2 has the same feature).
Please camera gurus, guide me! And if I have missed any obvious candidates, please inform me (not interested in the Olympus Mju range as they apparently take crap photos and are the size of a house brick)