Re: Canon G9 or the EOS 400D

"Woody" <woody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I would entirely agree with that. I have a Canon Ixus 60 as a pocket 
>camera to use when my Nikon D70s is too much. Trouble is it is often 
>difficult to tell (in jpg) which camera took which picture!!
>
>I bought a Fuji F47fd just before Christmas for it's face recognition 
>capabilites for a party and I have been amazed by the results.
>
>I bought my daughter the F30 early last year for a trip to the US and 
>the quality it produced was superb. The F31fd is the same camera with 
>face detection and is arguably the best of this range that Fuji have 
>produced. It is now technically obsolete but there are some still to be 
>found, or even refurbished units from the Fuji on-line shop.
>
>The F40fd/F45fd/F47fd are the same camera, save I think the F40 is pink, 
>the F45 is blue and only from Argos, and the F47 is silver and only from 
>Curry's. I managed to get the F47 when it was 99.99 (it had be a tenner 
>cheaper the week before!) but it was back up to 129.99 last time I saw 
>it.
>
>Note one thing: none of these Fuji cameras have a viewfinder, whereas 
>most of the Ixus range do - of a fa****on. The Fuji certainly produces 
>less picture noise but has very little in the way of manual override, 
>whereas the Ixus range gives you much more control and some say has a 
>better lens possibly at the expense of a more limited (film) speed range 
>to avoid the noise.



Thanks for that, Woody.  I hope Simon finds our comments useful.