Warning newbie question! Digital Camera???

[Paddy]

I am looking to pickup a mid range digital camera.
I have no idea how much they cost or what brands to go for or to avoid…

Anyone give me some pointers???

[ALBPM]

I like the Sony cameras that use the rechargable camcorder type battery. It's a lot cheaper and more convenient than having to carry a pocket full of AA batteries.

Paul

[Gurm]

Well, the kicker here is quality of photos above all... you may also have a preferred method of storage, but it really doesn't matter much.

For cheap $$, the Canon Elph series can't be beat - good pictures, tiny camera.

For a little more, Sony's smaller cameras are really nice - same size as your Canon 35mm, really nice photos.

If you want floppy disks (which we did), you can go with the Sony Mavicas.

How much you want to spend?

- Gurm

[ayoub_ibrahim]

depends on what you want the pics for!
IMO consider getting not less than a 2.1 megapixel model!

[Paddy]

The camera is not for me… It is my in-laws anniversary next month, And Andrea’s mother wants to by her father a camera,.

She doesn’t know how much to spend. but I don’t think it will be over £250.

They are looking for something to play with rather than a professional product.

Image quality and ease of use are a must. Perhaps something with firewire connectivity???

Sorry all, but I don’t know much about this sort

[ayoub_ibrahim]

have a look at the Canon PowerShot A20 & the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-P50!

[Gurm]

I concur. Unless you want TINY, in which case as I said the Elph can't be beat.

- Gurm

[Pneumatic]

This is the one that I recently bought. I did a lot of research and this one came out on top of the list. I can say from experience that it is a very good camera.

The new Olympus C-3000 ZOOM is a 3.34 megapixel digital camera with 15 different still image capture modes in five different image sizes (2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480.) It also offers QuickTime Movie capture at 15fps with sound. Sound can be recorded during video filming or a 4 second sound byte can be recorded for play with a single image. If you look at the photo above you will see five small holes just above the lens on the right, this is the microphone.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/c3000.html

With a 64 meg card and in the 640X480 resolution you can take over 200 pictures.

It has a wireless remote as well. I thought that it would be a useless feature, but I quickly realized that it is very valuable. I hook the camera up to a TV so that we can see it and then we can pose for family photos with everyone in the picture.

(No rude comments please )

[Paddy]

Cheers all! I have passed the info on.
You have made her day.



All have a pint on me.

[Electric Amish]

Another camera you may want to consider is the Fuji Finepix 1400z. Has a nice hardware zoom. Runs about $250 here in the states. Only 1.3megapix. I think the pics are really nice.

amish

[Paddy]

Thanks! I'll pass it on!

[Fat Tone]

Paddy, check out

www.digital-cameras.com for good prices.

Tony.

[SteveC]

Hey Paddy,

You don't always need the high megapixels. I have the Olympus 960 Zoom which cost me a little over £200 6 months or so back and it's only 1.3megapixel, but it has a proper (optical) 3X zoom.

See the attached picture as an example photo I took over the weekend when I was in Wales.

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