Which Camera Should I Buy

[JWHITE4606]

I Am Buying A Camera For Home Use. I Want To Get Great Digital Prints And The Best Camera For The Money. I Am Looking At The Panasonic Lumix Tz3 And The Canon Powershot S3 Is. I Can Get This Two Cameras For The Same Price. Please Help Me To Decide.


Jennifer

[David Metsky]

If you fill out the questionnaire at the top of this forum we'll have enough information to make a reasonable recommendation.

-dave-

[JWHITE4606]

Budget

* What budget have you allocated for buying this camera? Please be as specific as possible. $400.00

Size

SMALL BUT REALLY DOESNT MATTER

Features

How many megapixels will suffice for you? 6 OR MORE

* What optical zoom will you need? Ultrazoom = 10x-12x

* How important is “image quality” to you? (Rate using a scale of 1-10)
10
Do you care for manual controls?
NOT SURE

General Usage

* What will you generally use the camera for? HOME PHOTOS OF KIDS AND VACATION PICS

* Will you be making big prints of your photos or not? MAYBE SOMETIMES

Will you be shooting a lot of indoor photos or low light photos? YES

Will you be shooting sports and/or action photos? SOME

Miscellaneous

Are there particular brands you like or hate? NO

Are there particular models you already have in mind? YES , CANON S3 IS IR PANASONIC TZ3

(If applicable) Do you need any of the following special features? (Wide Angle, Image Stabilization, Weatherproof, Hotshoe, Rotating LCD)
NO
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[AlexMonro]

If you're shooting a lot of low light photos you should consider the Fuji S6000.

[David Metsky]

Keep in mind that even with the Fujis which are great in low light, you'll need to use some manual controls to get the best results. They're not great at fully auto shooting, especially in low light fast actions situations.

[JWHITE4606]

Should I Choose The Canon Or The Panasonic

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Should I Choose The Canon Or The Panasonic

If you're not going to listen to suggestions, then why are you asking us?

[David Metsky]

Should I Choose The Canon Or The Panasonic
Buy the Canon.

Happy?

-dave-

[SpecialK]

The Canon S3 has a rotating LCD (nice) or EVF (electronic viewfinder - fair) and poor low light/high ISO perfomance (not nice) a whole range of modes from automatic to fully manual (nice) and stereo-sound movies (nice). It also has an easily-changed-by-accident ISO button on the back (bad).

Don't know much about the TZ, though I believe it has no manual mode.

Both have stabilized lenses (good.)