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I'm looking for suggestions of cameras that would perform well at gigs but are not too pricey (£150 max). I've had a Canon Powershot SX280 for the past couple of years, and it doesn't do too badly but it has a few niggles. One is that it has a fault, which Canon either won't acknowledge or can't fix whereby i think the battery or the unit over heats when videoing so that if you've video-ed for a few minutes, it comes up with a low battery error and shuts down - so is very unpredictable and annoying. It's been back to Canon once and they claim to have sorted it but they have not and i can't be bothered to faff around with them as they were originally claiming i had to pay to send the camera back, even when i'd only had the camera for 10 days. I didn't want to return the camera as i'd spent a long time choosing it! I am not one of the those annoying people who hold their camera in the air in everyones way and waves it around so what it's recording is pointless, i don't watch gigs through the screen and I try to keep it out of people's way. I am usually at the front (being so short). I do shoot for a venue or two with my SLR, but for other gigs where I am just a punter, I like a nice photo or two and a video for my collection.
Wants: good zoom (15x and above), good quality low light performance - f2.8 would be good, HD video, raw if possible (not a deal breaker), manual mode, doesn't need too many gimmicky features, still looks like a compact so over agressive security don't take it away.
I have read many reviews but nothing seem to have the whole package i.e. good low light, not a good zoom - or everything good but crap battery life.
The Canon has actually been pretty good but it sometimes struggles in lower light more than i'd expect and the video 'feature' is just annoying. It's probably a big ask but i wondered if i was missing anything. I was just reading a review of Fuji X10 (which prior to this Canon i'd always been impressed by their low light skills) but then it says battery life is crap.
I'm looking for suggestions of cameras that would perform well at gigs but are not too pricey (£150 max). I've had a Canon Powershot SX280 for the past couple of years, and it doesn't do too badly but it has a few niggles. One is that it has a fault, which Canon either won't acknowledge or can't fix whereby i think the battery or the unit over heats when videoing so that if you've video-ed for a few minutes, it comes up with a low battery error and shuts down - so is very unpredictable and annoying. It's been back to Canon once and they claim to have sorted it but they have not and i can't be bothered to faff around with them as they were originally claiming i had to pay to send the camera back, even when i'd only had the camera for 10 days. I didn't want to return the camera as i'd spent a long time choosing it! I am not one of the those annoying people who hold their camera in the air in everyones way and waves it around so what it's recording is pointless, i don't watch gigs through the screen and I try to keep it out of people's way. I am usually at the front (being so short). I do shoot for a venue or two with my SLR, but for other gigs where I am just a punter, I like a nice photo or two and a video for my collection.
Wants: good zoom (15x and above), good quality low light performance - f2.8 would be good, HD video, raw if possible (not a deal breaker), manual mode, doesn't need too many gimmicky features, still looks like a compact so over agressive security don't take it away.
I have read many reviews but nothing seem to have the whole package i.e. good low light, not a good zoom - or everything good but crap battery life.
The Canon has actually been pretty good but it sometimes struggles in lower light more than i'd expect and the video 'feature' is just annoying. It's probably a big ask but i wondered if i was missing anything. I was just reading a review of Fuji X10 (which prior to this Canon i'd always been impressed by their low light skills) but then it says battery life is crap.
