Basic Camera Recommendation

[CornOnJacob]

Hello,

    My grandma wants a new camera, so I'm looking for recommendations (as I'm not much of a camera guy). She is a realtor, so most of her pictures will be of the inside of houses. The only important features she needs are manual flash and good pictures in low light (is this the ISO setting?). She has trouble with her hands (arthritis), so it would be nice to have something on the lighter end as far as weight.

Thanks in advance!

[Jam_ONG]

Has she had any experience with different camera before? If so, what brand? 

 

This factor may play very well into the decision. Because if she is used to the other one, the transition from the old to the new will be easier. Same-ish IU and controls. 

 

With that, a basic point and shoot is good enough. The only thing I'm concerned about, is the pictures inside of houses. I've met and shot real estate photographers in my time and they seem to be in love with their Wide-angle lenses. And this, I'm afraid is some thing the ordinary P&S just cant do. Now, with regards to the shakiness part, we do not want photos with a lot of camera shake. I would get a cheap monopod too. Albeit that most of the cameras now, even pointandshoots, have great ISO performance in Low light - at the end of the day they still have tiny sensors (analogous to the film in older cameras) and have very little surface area for the light to hit and be gathered. So the shutterspeeds you would get from these would still be low and if you push the ISO, probably introduce a lot of noise into the shot. 

[red_jelly]

Any NIkon Coolpix's would do the job just fine and if she gets good with the camera she could take panaramic shots :)

[CornOnJacob]

Has she had any experience with different camera before? If so, what brand? 

 

This factor may play very well into the decision. Because if she is used to the other one, the transition from the old to the new will be easier. Same-ish IU and controls. 

 

With that, a basic point and shoot is good enough. The only thing I'm concerned about, is the pictures inside of houses. I've met and shot real estate photographers in my time and they seem to be in love with their Wide-angle lenses. And this, I'm afraid is some thing the ordinary P&S just cant do. Now, with regards to the shakiness part, we do not want photos with a lot of camera shake. I would get a cheap monopod too. Albeit that most of the cameras now, even pointandshoots, have great ISO performance in Low light - at the end of the day they still have tiny sensors (analogous to the film in older cameras) and have very little surface area for the light to hit and be gathered. So the shutterspeeds you would get from these would still be low and if you push the ISO, probably introduce a lot of noise into the shot. 

 

 

Any NIkon Coolpix's would do the job just fine and if she gets good with the camera she could take panaramic shots :)

 

 She actually uses a Nikon Coolpix now, but feels like her pictures are of bad quality. I didn't know this before (the reason why I didn't tell you), but it is important that she can take good video as well for a walkthrough of the houses.

[ruairi]

A micro 4/3 camera might be something to look into, and a nice wide angle lens ( careful with crop factor)