That is one of the factors of buying this over a DSLR.. 12x zoom. I paid $650 for my Digital Rebel XT and that came with 17-55, which equals 3x zoom roughly. That's crap. Then I'd have to spend another $175-$300 on a nice Sigma 12-200 lens.
Plus, this thing will do movies. I think it's a very nice camera, too bad I'm really a Canon man. The reason I wouldn't keep my S3 IS is it didn't have a hotshoe and this has one. The S3 IS was 6MP with 12x zoom, super macro mode, movie mode, but no hot shoe ruined it for me.
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yuppicide @ Jul 19th 2006 4:12PM
That is one of the factors of buying this over a DSLR.. 12x zoom. I paid $650 for my Digital Rebel XT and that came with 17-55, which equals 3x zoom roughly. That's crap. Then I'd have to spend another $175-$300 on a nice Sigma 12-200 lens.
Plus, this thing will do movies. I think it's a very nice camera, too bad I'm really a Canon man. The reason I wouldn't keep my S3 IS is it didn't have a hotshoe and this has one. The S3 IS was 6MP with 12x zoom, super macro mode, movie mode, but no hot shoe ruined it for me.