Getting the best travel photos

I have the Canon powershot S5 IS. I got it for £240 including postage from amazon. So far I've really enjoyed using it. It's a great camera, with lots of settings for scenery as well as manual settings. It shoots in black and white and sepia, and different colour tones. It has an excellent zoom and can take additional lenses and filters if you like. It also has a stich-assist for making long panoramic shots which is really good. Reply to this

Jamie - I don't think the camera is important for the example you link to - in that case it's the software stitching and doing the display of the 360' panoramas.

Maybe ask the webmaster of the site you looked at what software he used. Some good free software is discussed here


Cameras in the $500 range are now very good - the Canon G9 - is the one I'd suggest for that price. Reply to this

The G9 is excellent but so is the G7, and now because of the G9 you can get one for really cheap - maybe $350.00 u.s/cdn dollars. Look into it. Reply to this

You might want to have a look at the reviews on dpreview.com for in-depth information on potential purchases, and Amazon for (generally) less technical opinions. I've used both Canon and Panasonic point-and-shoot cameras and would put in a plug for the latter as well. Any brand/model will have its strengths and weaknesses so you should think about just what type of photography you're likely to engage in, as that will dictate your choice to some extent, e.g. manual modes and RAW capability, which I think you will find on the G9, don't exist on many cheaper cameras. Reply to this

I'm sure this post is a clever ploy to to plug 'go360' - but you've clearly found this websites soft spot;-)

...Most of the pictures I've posted on this site were taken with the Fujis304. When it fell apart I treated myself to the another Fuji (primarily because I knew where the buttons were located). Unfortunately the silver camera wasn't en vogue anymore and some Marketing people in Japan decided my next one would be black, so I opted for the Fuji s5600 a few years back.
For the record it has 'RAW' and 'manual modes' and costs about $180.

As for some panorama shots I've been enamored with over the years, the Fuji s3 is invariably the culprit (s3 is easier for me to remember than any of the actual photographers) ...but alas the one thing standing in my way of true freedom and happiness is the fact that I don't have enough money to buy one! OK maybe that's not wholly true, I must confess that travel consumes the lions share of my income. Besides, you could travel from Cairo to Capetown with that kind of money! - but then I suppose you'd have no panoramas to show for it...



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