I Have New Camera

It was a hard choice and it took months of looking at prices and specs, but I finally made my choice. I was a hard one for me and I still have misgiving about my choice. I have been a Minolta person since I was 15 yrs old and I have been using my current my Minolta X-700 35 mm SLR since 1983. The decision to switch to digital was hard enough but to change camera brands was almost too much.

I basically came down to three cameras, the Sony DSC-H1, the Konica-Minolta Z5, and the Canon S2. The cheapest of the three was the Z5 and it a Minolta (almost just bought this one without looking into it) but the reviews for it in low lighting and at higher ISO were less than acceptable. That left me with the Sony and the Canon. I could buy them both for the same price and they had the same features. Some reviews would pick the Sony, others leaned more towards the Canon. What it came down to was the LCD size and image storage. The Sony has this HUGE 2" screen but the canon was the dinky little thing that made looking act images a little difficult. The Sony uses the more expensive Memory Stick while the Canon used the more reasonable SD cards.

I went to the stores and looked on-line for weeks; honestly even as I write this and get ready to post my first shots from the camera I still have misgivings about my choice. The Sony won out. I know that this is a transition camera and that I will eventually make the leap to digital SLR but until the technology stops advancing as quickly as it is and the prices come down a little more this will have to do.