Camera advice please.

[wiggydiggy]

My new camera arrived and.... all my rechargeable batteries are too old/weak to power it on (I got a couple of mins from one set lol).

Anyone recommend some AA Ni-Mh rechargeables?

 

[vickster]

My new camera arrived and.... all my rechargeable batteries are too old/weak to power it on (I got a couple of mins from one set lol).

Anyone recommend some AA Ni-Mh rechargeables?

If it’s new doesn’t it come with a battery?

 

[Dadam]

My new camera arrived and.... all my rechargeable batteries are too old/weak to power it on (I got a couple of mins from one set lol).

Anyone recommend some AA Ni-Mh rechargeables?

All AA NiMH are 1.2V so if they're in good condition and the camera is compatible they should power it. I'm not up on cameras but I'm surprised a modern camera doesn't come with a Li-ion rechargeable battery pack.

 

[Mo1959]

My new camera arrived and.... all my rechargeable batteries are too old/weak to power it on (I got a couple of mins from one set lol).

Anyone recommend some AA Ni-Mh rechargeables?

Eneloops are good.

 

[wiggydiggy]

If it’s new doesn’t it come with a battery?

All AA NiMH are 1.2V so if they're in good condition and the camera is compatible they should power it. I'm not up on cameras but I'm surprised a modern camera doesn't come with a Li-ion rechargeable battery pack.

Its new to me, the Camera is a Fujifilm Finepix 1600 from 2010. I'm just putting my toes in the water of trying a new camera, if I don't use it so much I'll stick with the phone. My old one is a Panasonic DMC-FX30 from 2007 (and that does come with a battery!).

Eneloops are good.

Cheers I'll have a look.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Phone cameras these days are quite remarkable. Convenience means you're more likely to have it when you need.

Mine has wide angle, zoom and telephoto lenses as well as normal, and is simply excellent. You can make the usual adjustments if you don't want point and shoot.

I've no doubt there are other even better ones out there.

Galaxy S21 ultra, was about £300 "refurbished" from backmarket.

If you do want a smaller than DSLR, as others have recommended, lumix are excellent, bodies and 4:3 format lenses considerably smaller than DSLR equivalents.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Phone cameras these days are quite remarkable. Convenience means you're more likely to have it when you need.

Mine has wide angle, zoom and telephoto lenses as well as normal, and is simply excellent. You can make the usual adjustments if you don't want point and shoot.

I've no doubt there are other even better ones out there.

Galaxy S21 ultra, was about £300 "refurbished" from backmarket.

If you do want a smaller than DSLR, as others have recommended, lumix are excellent, bodies and 4:3 format lenses considerably smaller than DSLR equivalents.

Yeah I've took loads of photos over the last few years with a Motorola G32, apparently it has a 50mp lens! But the battery life is getting iffy especially when I'm using other apps so wanted to experiment with a seperate camera again.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Yeah I've took loads of photos over the last few years with a Motorola G32, apparently it has a 50mp lens! But the battery life is getting iffy especially when I'm using other apps so wanted to experiment with a seperate camera again.

I fell foul of this when I got my first ever digital camera in 2003. It was a 3mp Minolta. I replaced the batteries with some cheapo ones which lasted about 10 shots and then I thought the camera was broken!

Looking on the jungle website, you can now get a pack of 8 2800mAh rechargeables for a tenner. A lot of other options at the same or similar capacity as well. The only thing you can't predict (without testing them) is whether this figure is accurate, but they are cheap enough to do a fairly good job even if they don't come out at the capacity they claim.

 

[Dadam]

I use these Energizer ones in the kids toys and console controllers, they seem to last well and seem to keep a decent charge if left a while.
They're "only" 2300 mAh but I read a lot of chargers don't play well with the higher capacity NiMH batteries.

May be hearsay but I also read that Eneloop do have a great rep but a lot on the market are faked. Of course there's no guarantee the Energizer ones aren't faked either but I've been ok with them so have stuck with them.

 

[MontyVeda]

Phone cameras these days are quite remarkable. Convenience means you're more likely to have it when you need.

...

What's more remarkable is the the fact that I seem to be oblivious to the fact that my phone has a camera when I wish I'd had my camera with me. I also keep forgetting that it has a torch too. My brain is stuck in a world where a phone is pretty much just a phone

 

[bonzobanana]

I must admit I love older Japanese compact cameras and bridge cameras. They go for very little money although more recently their prices have started increasing again. Chinese cameras are awful in comparison, typically children's cameras really.

The camera I use for everyday use was pretty much brand new for £10, A Fuji Z900EXR compact camera however after using it for probably 10,000 or more images (ebay plus normal use) the flash is starting to play up but still fine for outdoor shots. I've probably given it 4 years of hard use, perhaps 200 images a week on average. So probably a lot more than 10,000 thinking about it. I would imagine when I bought it, it had less than 100 images taken with it, it was pristine. The camera looks so beaten up today with a lot of its paint missing. I love the engineering quality of a lot of Japanese products. Yes mobile phone cameras can be decent but the sensors are tiny and the optics minimal and most of the reason they provide a good image is post processing internally, i.e. removing grain. It's not a true image but it is a satisfactory image. I personally prefer the flexibility and simplicity of an actual camera. Mine just hides away in a small pocket in my backpack and can be used anytime.

 

[Kingfisher101]

I bought one of these for safari, took fab pics. Recommended on here iirc. Doubled in price since I got it from cex but might find elsewhere used like Wex photo
https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail...MPACT-CAMERAS&superCatName=ELECTRONICS&title=

Does this one shoot in Black and White please as well?
I went into Wex yesterday and the lady I spoke really knew what she was talking about. What she was saying is that there's been a massive boom in people wanting compacts even though now a lot of people use their mobile. People still want them. They also get sold out really quickly. She gave me a couple of recommendations for compacts that they had which shoot in black and white as well, one was £610 A fuji, the other over 1K.
The thing is I want one that shoots in Black and white as well and the cheaper ones dont seem to do this anymore. I want to see the image on the camera, not just do it blind.
I don't want an DSLR as I've used one before when I did my GCSE art and found it hard/didn't know what I was doing and had to keep asking what this and that switch was for etc.

 

[vickster]

Does this one shoot in Black and White please as well?
I went into Wex yesterday and the lady I spoke really knew what she was talking about. What she was saying is that there's been a massive boom in people wanting compacts even though now a lot of people use their mobile. People still want them. They also get sold out really quickly. She gave me a couple of recommendations for compacts that they had which shoot in black and white as well, one was £610 A fuji, the other over 1K.
The thing is I want one that shoots in Black and white as well and the cheaper ones dont seem to do this anymore. I want to see the image on the camera, not just do it blind.
I don't want an DSLR as I've used one before when I did my GCSE art and found it hard/didn't know what I was doing and had to keep asking what this and that switch was for etc.

I’m afraid I don’t know but you can find the PDF of the manual online (I can also email it to you if you PM me your email address)

 

[mistyoptic]

Does this one shoot in Black and White please as well?
I went into Wex yesterday and the lady I spoke really knew what she was talking about. What she was saying is that there's been a massive boom in people wanting compacts even though now a lot of people use their mobile. People still want them. They also get sold out really quickly. She gave me a couple of recommendations for compacts that they had which shoot in black and white as well, one was £610 A fuji, the other over 1K.
The thing is I want one that shoots in Black and white as well and the cheaper ones dont seem to do this anymore. I want to see the image on the camera, not just do it blind.
I don't want an DSLR as I've used one before when I did my GCSE art and found it hard/didn't know what I was doing and had to keep asking what this and that switch was for etc.

My Panasonic TZ90 can certainly shoot monochrome and I imagine most similar can also

 

[Electric_Andy]

Looking at sold items on Ebay, there are quite a few TZ-60 and TZ-70 that have sold for around £130. It might be a good starting point to get to know the camera and see if it's for you. As said before, I have the TZ-70 and it does shoot in monochrome (I'm not sure if this is actual B&W or if it's a post "filter"). If you like it and it suits your needs, then you've only spent a little over £100 and it may see you right for many a year. That's what I did and I've ended up keeping it, it far outstrips my knowledge and skills as a photographer.