Point and Shoot / Low Light
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- Miguex
Hey guys, I recently bought a Canon ELPH 130 IS
for a trip. I loved that it's so small and portable, but looking at the photos now and they are terrible.I'm going to try and exchange it for something else. I still want it to be portable and economic (I already have an DSLR) so I can take on trips.
Hopefully a lot better in low light situations.
Anyone has any recommendations?
- sublocked0
Ricoh GRD4
Compact, great in low light (f1.9 lens), super configurable, snap focus.
It's a model older than the current one (Ricoh GR), so you can get it cheaper. It has a smaller sensor but better lens for low light than the GR.
- sublocked0
My shots with the GRD IV - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sp… ....mostly low light as you can see
- Miguex0
thanks man! Your photos look 1000x times better than what I got with that canon... it almost looks like a webcam
- Miguex0
Ricoh GRD4
Can't find it lower than $600
To be honest for that price I think I rather get a gopro4 and keep my shitty canon.I'm not going to find a good lowlight camera on $300 budget am I?
- they consistently get sold on eBay for less than $400 http://www.ebay.com/…sublocked
- robotron3k0
I'd suggest buying a used GH2 like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasoni…
hack the firmware with the Driftwood hack for a few dollars
http://www.personal-view.com/tal…you can then shoot in candle light with the stock 3.5 speed lens with the fastest focusing camera on the market capable of shooting in 4k video as well.
- or pick up a pancake lensrobotron3k
- i have a GF1 and that + pancake lens is SO MUCH BIGGER than the powershot or GRDsublocked
- horton0
if I remember correct after my experience with a Canon Elph on vacation a couple years ago is you gotta turn off all the auto presets to get normal looking photos... it comes packaged with some image profiles that jack the saturation and contrast. Dig deep into the menus. And don't shoot in AUTO mode.
End of the day it really is just a basic camera. But on the flipside at less than 200$ I didn't worry about leaving it in an open bag on the beach while were going for a swim.
- yeah, I wasn't shooting on presets that made it look ever worseMiguex
- but I wanted a cheap camera just so I can take it on the street and shoot without the worries of carrying an expensive dslrMiguex
- not a preset as in shooting mode (Auto, P, sport, portrait etc.)... I'm refering to a color effect preset that was burried in on screen menushorton
- ... on screen menus
horton - like b/w sepia etc?Miguex
- webazoot0
Lots of point and clicks have manual settings which will obviously be a lot more low light friendly and are available on cameras from the $100 point.
I used to like the cannon powershot sx series as they were tough, cheap and pretty good but the last one I had was kind of disappointing, the manual stuff was okay but the camera as a whole was much more aimed at the aouto-point and shoot market.
- uan0
2nd hand sony cybershot DSC-RX100/B, big sensor camera f1.8 (for low light). Sony put out the II model, so the I is cheap in online auctions.
but I suggest using your smartphone, cameras are pretty great and every generation is getting better and better.
- actually the photos from my iphone were a lot better than the canon.. crazyMiguex
- monospaced0
The Lumix LX7 does really well in low light too.
- not sure how it compares to the above, but it's in your price rangemonospaced
- thanks manMiguex
- sublocked0
Those LX7s look nice.
- Miguex0
That looks interesting, anyone used one?
- you cant go wrong with lumix, this is the cheap version of the same Leica modelrobotron3k
- robotron3k0
OnePlusOne, 2.0 speed lens/13mega pixel $299
- inteliboy0
Any small fuji x's cheap enough? Fuji has nice glass and sensors.
- inteliboy0
i'd say between these two?
http://snapsort.com/compare/Fuji…