Camera Help

[lesliepear]

Yesterday I was helping my friend set up her new digital camera (she got one although she's computerless at the moment). Oddly enough she got the camera I'd been looking into the Olympus FE-120 - which is a major upgrade from my 4 year old Olympus D-520. So I got to try it out as I showed her what to do. It seemed pretty good - BUT it doesn't have an optical viewfinder. So in bright sunlight it is very hard to see the big LCD screen.

Do they even make cameras with optical viewfinders anymore? I do like the camera and the fact it takes AA batteries - maybe rechargables have longer battery life, but with AA's you can get replacements anywhere in a hurry.

I looked at the Olympus Stylus 710 online but the reviews were so so. I want to get a camera that has a minimal shutter lag and the reviews of this said it didn't.

Any suggestions? It looks like my bonus will come this month, so I'd like to decide soon!

Comments

[goodjoan]

My new Kodak (easychare C643) has an optical viewfinder and a nice big digital screen and you can pick which to use. With the little printer, extra paper, rechargable battery kit with a carry case, the whole mess came in under $400. However, it does have a bit of shutter lag. One neat option that it has to help counter that is an 'action series' shutter speed which takes a series of pictures with one button press. I use it a lot when the kids are doing something 'blurry' like going down the zip line at Stone Mountain. I hit the button once, it takes a bunch of pictures then late I pick the ones that captured what I wanted.