Camera recommendation for real estate professionals. Camera, State College, PA

Camera recommendation for real estate professionals. Camera, State College, PA

I recently purchased the Canon PowerShot SX10 IS (20x zoom 10.0 megapixels) at our local Best Buy in State College, PA. I love it! Wide angle lens (well, relatively wide-angel for a point and shoot camera). I think for a point and shoot camera it's the best (although, it was one of the priciest point and shoot - about $350-$400 range). But I wanted the best camera I could get in a point and shoot. Because the last one I had (while being really cool and small), it didn't take the best shots for real estate. And now I can get more of the room in with this camera. For a real estate agent needing to capture as much as possible, I think this camera does it. I think it's the next best thing to a professional's. Not quite as good. But the next best thing for the price.

The cons. It does take batteries. It's not rechargeable. But I am getting used to that. It's kind of nice when I am out to not have to worry about recharging it. I just have to make sure I have an extra supply of batteries. I just keep an extra set in the camera bag at all times. It's not that big of a deal. Also, I see the need to purchase the additional larger flash. I have not done that yet. But yes, this will be needed at times for the real estate shots. Not in all areas and not all the time. But now that I have used the camera somewhat over the last couple of months, I can see that this will be good for me to have in certain lighting (or lack there of). It does come with a flash on it. But sometimes, that flash is not sufficient (only in certain scenarios).

And finally, on a personal level, my son plays baseball. So here's my opinion on other uses with this camera besides real estate. My son is a pitcher and I can sit in the stands or at the fence and with the 20x zoom, it takes awesome photos! I can get really close up to my son on the field. I have fantastic shots that look like a real professional took them.

All in all, IMHO, it's a great camera for the price.

Your friend in the real estate biz,

~Nyssa