Recommend a good value 3mp camera

[GNEP]

Well, gotta have something in here that's not offtopic or pictures of babies and dogs

Well, as the title says. I know we've covered some of this ground before, but I know some people love giving advice.

Price range £200 - probably translates to about 250 USD for similar products I guess...

3 megapixels is apparently quite good.

Compact Flash preferred I think.

Optical zoom if possible.

Ideas?

Thanks

Gnep

[mutz]

Hey Gnep!

First look here to see what suits you, get an idea of the price and read a thorough review. I like Canon, but everybody has their preferences.

[GNEP]

Thanks Mutz...

[mutz]

...and if you want more professional reviews go here.

...this one is very handy.

...or more consumer oriented here.

[az]

For just a bit over that you could get a Minolta Dimage F100 (if you shop around). Very good, stylish and small 4mp 3x zoom camera with full auto or manual controls.

AZ

[VJ]

I heard the Canon A70 is not bad either (I think it is 3 megapixels).
(dpreview is working on a couple of new reviews of this range of cameras, I believe the A70, F100 are amongst them)

Mutz:
You couldn't even leave us one good site we could mention ?
BelgiumDigital is not bad ( http://www.belgiumdigital.com, but the forums are mainly in Dutch)


Jörg

[GNEP]

Thanks people.

[mutz]

Sorry VJ, just wanted to get GNEP hooked!

[GNEP]

Hmmm... 200 has just gone on a play-around box for me to try and fiddle with Linux... but as I'm going on hols next weekend I might just stretch another coupla hundred Will have to think about this one overnight.

[az]

The F100 has been reviewed by dpreview - bear in mind that at the time the review was written, it cost twice as much as now, so of course the standards it was compared against were higher.

AZ

[GNEP]