Hasselblad H1

Advantages: High zoom, excellent macro facility, lightweight, quality lens.
Disadvantages: Very hard to get the memory stick out of the camera.

...With it's stylish, unique and revolutionary design, there can be no doubt in saying that this camera is another of Sony's fantastic ideas that have worked. Many people are embarrassed to take their camera out in front of many other photographers, who often have the high-end digital SLR's and show them off by adding long telephoto lenses to them. The sheer quality of the SONY DSC-H1 means that there is no need for you to spend so much money on a digital SLR. It is, inevitably, a revolutionary breakthrough in camera designs and there can be no doubt in saying that it is a powerful and special camera. It has a high zoom of 12×; and a high-end lens. It even has one of the best macro (close-up) facilities that I have ever come across in all the cameras that I have had. The camera has a great 6 mega pixel CCD sensor. The macro mode... Read review

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Advantages: Robust,Reliable,Adaptable
Disadvantages: Pricey

...The reputation of Hasselblad has prompted many a photographer-professional and amateur alike-to invest in what is arguably the ultimate medium format system. During my 15 year carrer in professional photography, I have used/owned three market-leading medium format camera models; Bronica (S2A:-yes S2A!) Mamiya(RB67) and an old Hasselblad 500. Of the three, I found the Hasselblad the most comfortable to use.It scores over the Bronica in terms of build quality and compared to the Mamiya it is a great deal easier to handle. In the field of freelance work, I needed a robust camera that would deliver high quality results with the minimum of maintainence, so the Hasselblad 501 was the obvious choice.... Read review

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Advantages: In my opionion, the camera is Fool Proof
Disadvantages: Makes people belive you are more of an expert than you are.

...much of a clue about cameras, but thought obviously the bigger the Ratio the better the picture quality 5.1 MEGA PIXELS 12.0x ZOOM. This must be better than my 3 mega pixel. Who Paid? where purchased? & how much? ************************************************ Well Luckily for me I'm spoilt, and it didn't take a lot of puppy dogs looks to MR DOG, to eventually take the hint. I sat for what seamed like ages, staring at the Argos catalogue & comparing prices with my Kays catalogue, before MR DOG eventually took the hint! But took it he did ! "PHEW !!!" Kays catalogue were offering my Sony DSC-H1 at £459.99. Argos were selling the exact item at £399.99. So the answer here was simple, He bought my baby from Argos, £399.99 To my disappointment *********************** cableservelimited., techstore and mediaatlantic are... Read review

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