Cheap digital camera that can save images uncompressed.

Energize · 10 Jul 2006 at 02:47

Need a digital camera for holiday photos and other miscellaneous stuff, the one we have at the moment can have some awful jpeg artifacts so im looking for one that can save images as something uncompressed like bmp. Must be at least 3Mp and have a cf slot.

DizMatt · 10 Jul 2006 at 09:31

uncompressed images?
you need to find one that saves to TIFF then, not BMP
or a nice little camera that does RAW

the fuji's and panasonics sometimes do tiff however, comparing the tiff and low compression jpgs on my old panasonic I found very little difference
odds on that you have a fuji maybe already

King_Boru · 10 Jul 2006 at 13:19

Panasonic Lumix (the FZ7 and FZ30 i think) cameras can save to RAW format which is completely uncompressed. You will need some software to view the images though (unless you use a Mac).

Energize · 10 Jul 2006 at 17:28

I have photoshop so that isnt a problem, atm Im using a really crap kodak camera.

Damnations Fury · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:46

The Fz7 ( and so I asum the Fz30) don't do RAW, they do TIFF, so the output given will still have all the camera processing done on it, just none of the compression.

fini · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:53

If you're looking for a camera that's 'at least 3mp' I'm presuming that the one it'll be replacing is around the same - in which case it's more likely the low mp you're noticing rather than pixilation due to it being a jpg.

fini

m3csl2004 · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:04

canon powershot - i personally prefer the s series

King_Boru · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:12

The Samsung L 8 5 has excelent picture quality, great camera. 8.1 megapixel for ~£279

Energize · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:37

fini said:
If you're looking for a camera that's 'at least 3mp' I'm presuming that the one it'll be replacing is around the same - in which case it's more likely the low mp you're noticing rather than pixilation due to it being a jpg.

fini

Its definatley the compression because it only shows up on certain surfaces, and Im not even looking at the image on a big monitor.

Sleepyd · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:42

I think you're going off on the wrong route. Rather than get a RAW/TIFF producing camera, you need to find one that stores high resolution JPEGs - i.e. the compression isn't so harsh.

Look for one that stores fine/large JPEG images - that should be absolutely fine for your needs.

Energize · 11 Jul 2006 at 21:24

Your probably right. Another thing I need is a good optical zoom, the one I've got at the moment only has 4x but I've seen some camcorders with 33x. I don't want a big camera though. A 16:9 ratio or wider would be nice to.