Digital Cameras

For Vicki's birthday in February we bought a new camera for her. For anyone interested in buying a camera with similar capabilities and price, here's what we got. Since then a newer model has hit the market at the same price.

We didn't do a huge amount of research on this: in short, we discovered that the previous camera had been broken in an icy slip-n-fall accident and, since the birthday was at hand, we walked into Ritz Camera and asked what they had in a given price range.

The salesman there, a very likable chap, helped us to quickly narrow our selection to two models: the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 and the Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd. Because the Panasonic had a slightly longer zoom (12x vs 10x) and an awesome Leica lense, we went with it. The Fujifilm has an incredible photo sensor, so it was a tough decision. In fact, I'm holding out hope that I'll get the Fujifilm camera sometime between now and my birthday. Although the new Panasonic DMC-FZ8 looks pretty awesome too!