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Fuji FinePix S9000 Zoom
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This camera is ranked
- 52nd of 63 in Extended Zoom (#1 is Panasonic FZ35)
- 99th of 102 in 9 and 10 Megapixels (#1 is Canon S90 IS)
- 33rd of 41 in Fuji (#1 is Fuji S200EXR)
- 65th of 87 in $350 - $600 (#1 is Canon S90 IS)
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Hi Suzy,
Unfortunately, there aren't really any digital SLRs out there that match your specifications. The lowest price you'll find for a new (non-clearance) SLR is $550-600. These will, if you're lucky, come with a 18-55mm lens (wide angle to mild telephoto). Unfortunately, the real sticking point here is that no (and I mean absolutely no) digital SLR includes a movie mode. This is because of the way SLRs work--a mirror reflects the image you're seeing to the viewfinder and flips up when you press the shutter release. Since SLRs have no live preview LCD, and since you can't see anything through the viewfinder when the shutter is open, you would have no idea what you're filming with a dSLR in movie mode. There's a good discussion of this problem here. So, in short, no movie modes on dSLRs.
However, there's a whole class of digital cameras that are "SLR-like", a term that's generally used in relation to their size/shape and range of manual controls. These often have huge zooms, optically stabilized lenses, tons of manual options, and so on. In terms of movie modes, the best of these is Canon's S3 IS, which features 640x480 movies at 30fps. The video quality is seriously amazing, and you can zoom in and out while recording. The only downside is that video recording is limited to 1gb files, which equals about 9 minutes of footage at the highest video quality setting.
Other cameras to consider are Sony's H5, Panasonic's FZ50, and Fuji's S9000. Good luck!
Unfortunately, there aren't really any digital SLRs out there that match your specifications. The lowest price you'll find for a new (non-clearance) SLR is $550-600. These will, if you're lucky, come with a 18-55mm lens (wide angle to mild telephoto). Unfortunately, the real sticking point here is that no (and I mean absolutely no) digital SLR includes a movie mode. This is because of the way SLRs work--a mirror reflects the image you're seeing to the viewfinder and flips up when you press the shutter release. Since SLRs have no live preview LCD, and since you can't see anything through the viewfinder when the shutter is open, you would have no idea what you're filming with a dSLR in movie mode. There's a good discussion of this problem here. So, in short, no movie modes on dSLRs.
However, there's a whole class of digital cameras that are "SLR-like", a term that's generally used in relation to their size/shape and range of manual controls. These often have huge zooms, optically stabilized lenses, tons of manual options, and so on. In terms of movie modes, the best of these is Canon's S3 IS, which features 640x480 movies at 30fps. The video quality is seriously amazing, and you can zoom in and out while recording. The only downside is that video recording is limited to 1gb files, which equals about 9 minutes of footage at the highest video quality setting.
Other cameras to consider are Sony's H5, Panasonic's FZ50, and Fuji's S9000. Good luck!
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