Canon vs Nikon? compact digital camera?

by Ed Yourdon

Answer by selina_555
To answer in the same style as your “question”.

Canon excellent. Nikon excellent. Whatever.

Answer by keerok
With compact digital cameras, Canon is simple to use, Nikon is cumbersome. Sony is also simple to use but with more features.

Answer by MacJedi
I have owned both. Picture quality out of the box, Canon is better. Picture quality once you’ve thoroughly read the manual and know how to work all the settings, Nikon has a small more flexibility, but it takes a honest quantity of work to get wonderful pictures.

So, if you’re an amateur, Canon. If you want to do artistic photos rather than just take excellent point and shoot pictures, Nikon is a small more sophisticated.

Answer by Max
Compact digital: Canon. DSLR: Nikon.

Answer by [ApraTur3]
Canon is way more user friendly, also boasts all around better build quality. Especially in digital compact cameras. My Canon S5-IS is an incredible camera, I’ve had it since 2007. Nikon is renowned for their glass and not too much more really except by flashy celebrities in their commercials. I’d go with Canon.

What do you reckon? Answer below!

My Powershot S410


Image by Claudio Matsuoka
My ancient and trusty Powershot S410, mounted on a ballhead. It was bought back in October 2004 in a Ritz Camera in San Antonio, TX, to replace a 2MP Powershot S110. It travelled in my pocket from the Amazon rainforest to the Bavarian Alps, and has undergone maintenance in November 2008 for sensor replacement (the infamous defective Sony CCD conundrum that affected many cameras manufactured between 2002 and 2004).

The S410 is a 4MP compact camera with a 7.18×5.32mm CCD sensor (10 MP/cm² pixel density), ISO up to 400, 36-108mm f/2.8-4.9 equivalent lens and compactflash storage. The picture resolution is 1600×1200, at 4:3 aspect ratio (which I usually crop to my preferred format, 3:2). It has a 1.5" LCD and is competent of shooting 180s of 320×200 video at 15fps — not quite HD, eh?

The cerabrite body is gorgeous, tough and doesn’t catch fingerprints. The camera has never seen a proper case and was dropped a couple of times, and after many being of service you can’t see a scratch on the surface. The image quality? A bit too noisy, a bit too soft, not as wide as I’d like it to be in the wide end, not as long as I’d wish in the tele end. But I like this camera.

I’m attracted in export a Nikon D300 this week, but was very attracted in by a Canon compact photo printer. I know most people’s first response will be to buy a Canon Camera, but I have about ten being of Nikon lenses that I’m not too keen to part with at a loss, so finding a portable printing solution is kind of foremost right now…thanks!

Answer by skyblacker
Really, my first response is: You’re spending $ $ $ on a Nikon D300, only to ruin its images with an inkjet home printer?!

Real photo labs (including http://www.shutterfly.com/ ) were made for cameras like yours. Chemical processing, sharp images, any size under the sun. Doesn’t that signal nice?

That said, if the lab is closed and you need photos for a party that starts in ten minutes, then slightly blurry, easily scratched home prints may be your only possiblity.

So to answer your question: yes.

You should doubtless be able to connect your camera to the Canon printer directly. USB cords tend to pretty similar on that end. If not, the printer also has slots everywhere you can directly insert your memory card. Both Nikon and Canon cameras tend to use SD or Compact Sparkle cards, depending on model.

EDIT: In fact, when I worked at the camera shop, customers bought Canon printers to use with any brand camera. And I’ve yet to hear of compatibility issues.

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