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Kyoichi
12-05-2005, 09:50 AM
Hello everyone, I'm Kyoichi and a photography lover but didnt take so much photos ^^;
Pardon me for my bad english.
I already have a prosumer, present from my someone (cant be rejected)... but now I need a compact digital camera for my other activities..
here we go.

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My budget is around $240

I need Compact Point-and-Shoot and smaller than Nikon Coolpix 5600
with 4 Megapixels at least

3x Zoom would be okay, Macro capability have priorities

Picture rating (1-10): 9-10, I need excellent picture quality, with very low noise ratio at ISO 50-200 and well saturated colours..

I care for manual control

I'll use it for candid, and silent-shot (a shot that unnoticeable by the object,you would say Ninja-Shot but it's not like that, Ninja-Shot is a crime) and mostly an alternative for my prosumer...

I don't think I'd make a big print for the photo... A3 is the maximum... but so rare condition...

Indoor no, low light yes... I want to take many beautiful night sceneries (building and no people so I dont need redeye control features)

no action nor sport photos..

I prefer (sorted from my best) Canon, Nikon, and Panasonic... I hate those which use xD or MemoryStick or those which uses batteries other than AA!!

A particular model is Canon Powershot A520, however it's bulkier than Coolpix 5600 and didn't have DIGIC II image processor...

What is nice to me is only Image Stabilization and rotating LCD... however this is not my priorities..
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Thank you so much for reading this...

I'll accept any comments..