Can you please tell me what you think I should buy. One or the other. No grey area.
My synopsis:
I am an amatuer photographer and have done some excellent photos with lower megapixel cameras. I now have the resources to purchase a better camera with high megapixels and more features. I wish to be able to blow pictures up to 16x20 and place them on the wall (so near photo quality, but viewed from a few feet back). On the one hand the P150 has no RAW format but much higher megapixels, and much better video. I plan to use some video but am buying the camera for pictures, not video but it's definately a nice feature. The Canon S60, has RAW format but only has 5.0 MP. It has a little more zoom but seems to has lots of noise at higher ISO's. As well the video is limited to 30 seconds and only 10fps. With that being said, please advise me on your thoughts. Will both camera produce extremely nice 16x20's or will the JPEG only format of the Sony really not have the colors in the photo that the the Canon would produce. On the other hand would the 5.0 MP of the Canon start to pixelate where the 7.0 MP of the Sony would excel. Or again would the pictures be comparable. I would like to be able to take nice night shots as well, both have long shutter speeds (15 seconds I believe) which will help but I have heard the Canon has more noise.
The video I am not so concerned with. One has good video while the other has the intervalometer which is an interesting feature.
Please try to give me an aswser as to one or the other. If you have any other suggestion please also let me know them.
Thank you so much for taking the time. It is much appreciated and I will let you know which I get.
Mike Arnott
P.S. Considered the Fugi E550 but heard the 6MP setting over compresses and the LCD is hard to see
The megaapixel war is moot on point and shoot cameras, their sensors are all the same size and still cannot rival the picture quality of adigital SLR even at 4 megapixels.
With that said, Canon having the RAW format is a better feature than what Sony has to offer. Noise at high ISO can be fixed with various programs specially with the RAW format.
Both cameras should produce good quality pictures at 16x20.
The video feature is not even a deal breaker for me.