i think you mean 18-200VR. that's about RM3k loh

just stay with the kit lens for now. it comes "free" with D40 anyway
spend another few bucks on flash instead. after all you said good quality pictures & night shots & moving objects. you didn't mention big zooms

yah...big zooms would be a advantage...

Olympus SP550 I manage to get it for RM1680 with 1GB Xd card.
Considering this camera support wide angle and also long zoom.
It is recommended if budget might be the constraint.

prosumer + long zoom.. bcoz.. if u stick with 10x. then it gonna be there forever.. unlike the dslr.. u can change the lense..

honestly.. most of the time i'm using half of the zoom that i have.. 12x picture sometimes turn to be unsharp....

12x only use to watch "leng lui" from distance.. kekekek

but.. why not go fz50...(even i use s3is).. got hot shoe.. and also g7 (canon) -(metal body) if u don't mind about long zoom

but for night picture, i reckon dslr though..(d40 or 350d - rm2599)



This post has been edited by ganz: Mar 26 2007, 02:39 PM

im using sp 550 uz rite now, but what i can tell, im not very satisfied with the pix produce by it. ermmmm... thinkin' to get D40.

who said? can + conversion lens .4x .7x and 2.0x more than enuf

12 un-sharp?? are u confidence to ur self skill? pls don blame to the device

dun blame the fella. I personally tested the olympus 550uz & canon s3Is & panasonic fz50. I use the same settings to take a picture. Canon's pic turn out sharper than the others.

This post has been edited by superdav007: Apr 2 2007, 12:13 PM

i no blame him lar, but must say ma, 12x zoom , its too general, mine fz20 as well

Support for S3 IS here. But if you have a lot of budget and likes photography, take Nikon D40.

This post has been edited by DreamChaser: Apr 2 2007, 01:07 PM

i wonder whether its a good idea to wait for the month of may because i heard that sony H9 & maybe canon S4 or S5 will come out?

if u keep this idea, u will never buy a camera suit u....there are always new model coming soon few month forward

i heard that Olympus SP-550
the image quality is poor, plus the AF is bad
i still believe that Canon offers the fastest AF (USM) and better sensors
so s3 is still better, no offence here juz giving out my opinions

ei tonite moon very nice woh, wanna take some moon photo? test ur s3 12x zoom and shapness lor lai lai, let me see see

Personally, I would prefer Fuji S6500 rather than Cannon, cause.
1. have manual zoom and manual focus rings.
2. Lower Noise

since you're going considering Super-zoom....Try Fuji. you might like it. Price is around 1500? Almost like S3IS.

@tongyam,
Hows your FZ20 doing? It was my dream cam previous few years.. until now, I will like the look it it..very 'Ganas'.

very good!! like the multiple shoot shuttle sound, taktaktaktaktaktaktak......

ALL fixed lens camera's focus too slowly, Y bother? Get the superior D40 instead! 350D's are also cheap now, but u have to deal with a lousy kit lens and old camera. Fuji does not have less noise, it just has more Noise Reduction. U can Reduce noise with software to get the same results.

dp u heard of MF??

MF when a person is running across ur screen to u? good luck getting more than 1 shot in. let alone a clear in focus shot. and good luck with that EVF. Another reason Y real SLRs are superior.

confirm, u are wrong! there are different level confirm

I vote the canon S3is, i tested both camera, The S3 zoom and af is fast and the image quality is very good. And i personally don like the SP550, althogh it got 18x zoom but it take almost more than 1s to auto focus at longest zoom. and the image stablerizer oso not working quite well, image quality not so good and blur if u got shaky hand, high iso are useless with a small sensor, there will be noisy if u set iso more than 400. Some more i think don need too long zoom unless i really wanna spy some "leng lui"

If bufget is allow, go for d40, u can get it ar 2000+ depend on how u bargain. DSLRs are diffrent level in image quality and speed. POISON POISON