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My old pop is getting on now, but he would like a camera for his 'special' birthday ..... he likes the above.

Any help on it?

I am unsure of the AA Battery requirement as my old digital compact camera from 7 years ago ate AA batteries in no time (and when you grabbed the camera after, say, a month ... they were FLAT!) my Canon has a Lithium and it always has charge even after months of inactivity.

Are they better on battery consumption now than they were before?

Any other camera about with a mega zoom (thats what he like the idea of!! :rolleyes: ) or is this one the best they get?

He doesn't want big like a SLR and his hands are large so he doesn't want small either...........

Any help out there?? :D

Use rechargable high-capacity AA's.

Battery technology and Camera power consumption have improved on both counts.

Cheers Pumpkin :thumb:

google it,do a search

google it,do a search

I have, but you lot are so much more knowledgable :D

I was hoping someone here had one, or knew someone who had one?

Now he has seen the SONY DSC H9 .......... and wants THAT!! :rolleyes:

Olympus or Sony??

girlfriend has one as well as a G7

she loves it and i can't understand why she doesn't get on with the G7 :wonder:

basically 28mm through 500+ although at 500+ you need to rest the camera/use a tripod.

It's easy to use, the colour rendition is good, contrast no so, but this can be sorted in photoshop. with 2700mAh AAs she shot 3gigs over 3 days with lots of image reviewing - not bad i think :)

i'll post some of her machu picchu shots with it if you're interested.

Cheers for that :thumb:

PSL, all these images are from an SP550UZ

Peru 2007 Photo Gallery by Suzy Walker at pbase.com (http://www.pbase.com/suzy_walker/peru_2007)

WOW!!

Some cracking shots there :thumb: