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a good digital camera

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could anyone recommend a good digital camera? just for messing about with really not owt for seroius photography
 
I like Nikon personally, The Panasonics with the Leica lens and the Canons are good as well. Sony is decent too, but you have to use memory stick, which no one else uses.

I'd stay away from the Kodaks and Samsungs, okay cameras, but not great by any means.
 
i was going to go for a Canon but a mate said the batteries run out really quick, anyway, thanks for the advice lads, i'm going to have abit of a look around
 
I really like my olympus camera but its not the best on batteries.
 
I bought a Canon Power Shot A85 a couple of years ago and absolutely love it. Paid about $450.00 (Australian) for it which was quite a bargain at the time. Nowadays, the equivalent range of Canon cameras sells for about half that amount!

There are many excellent web sites that can help you find the camera that's right for you, and they also give really useful side-by-side comparisons of digital cameras. I did all my research via the internet first so I knew exactly what I wanted before I started haggling over the price, and it made it so much easier. Just do a google search on digital camera comparison and go from there. Good luck!

As for batteries ......NiMH rechargeable are the only way to go!
 
I love my Sony Cybershot. It's good on battery life, too. Go to Amazon.com and you will find good reviews on almost any product there.
 
Olympus is a good camera because they use glass lenses instead of plastic. Canon and Nikon are good also. Sounds like your looking for a point and shoot camera. A camera that will take rechargeable batteries is a good idea. Not sure where you live, but I do not like Consumer Reports. Go to www.steves-digicams.com or some other sites for camera reviews. Steves is good because he does consumer as well as pro camera reviews. I am a graphic designer so I need a camera that is more than a point and shoot. I have a Panasonic Lumix with the Leica lenses....a sweet camera overall!
 
My Olympus and Sony both great - and like any thing made today the quality is limited to the luck you have
 
I get asked this question a lot. I'm a shutter bug, I'll admit it. I've got the nice Rebel XT with the 17-85 IS lens.

Even without knowing what your primary uses would be, one camera always comes to mind. Basically, I tell everyone who asks me this same question to get the Canon Powershot S2 IS.

Megapixels don't mean a whole lot. Over 4MP, the image quality is dictated primarily by the lens, not the image sensor (chip). We may be getting into the 8MP realm these days in $400 cameras, but they're 8 million really fuzzy pixels. I'll take 2 million clean, sharp, non-noisy pixels over any amount of junkers.

This camera has an IS (image stabilizer lens). Since flash is the mother of all evils, the IS lens allows you to take indoor/low light shots that you normally wouldn't be able to take. The lens itself has a gyroscope inside it, and it can sense camera jitter. When it senses jitter, it moves the back set of lens elements to compensate. The end result--a much much much clearer image. It allows you to pull off a 1/20 sec shutter speed when that normally wouldn't be possible. Normally 1/20 would be hopelessly blurred, but the IS lens lets you get away with it.

And of course, it will take great photographs in good light too.

Bottom line, this is a great camera paired with a terrific lens.

It's $305 at B&H Photo
Canon PowerShot S2 IS
 
I know very little about computers or cameras. I bought a digital camera online. It is an Olympus with a lot of features, plus 5 megpixels. The one thing I didn't take in consideration was the physical size of the camera. It is very small, about the size of the palm of my hand. Since I have to have my glasses on to read, but I don't need them to see otherwise, I have to put glasses on to read the settings, etc. Then, I have to take my glasses off to take the piture. That is a real pain in the ass. When I purchase my next camera, I will go to a camera shop, so I can see whenever I can see the settings.
 
The cheap digital cameras are getting smaller and smaller. You should check in a shop if the camera you want is not too small for your hands and fingers.
 
At the end of a ski holiday with my club we combined everybody's pictures on the same PC, so I was able to compare a lot of pictures from different mid range digital cameras. The Sony Cybershot with the Zeiss lens had by far the nicest pictures of the lot.
 
I've got a Canon IXUS 60...it's a really good camera I think. I think you can get something of a higher specification now in the Canon IXUS range.
 
Txgoodoldboy said:
..... It is very small, about the size of the palm of my hand. Since I have to have my glasses on to read, but I don't need them to see otherwise, I have to put glasses on to read the settings, etc. Then, I have to take my glasses off to take the piture. That is a real pain in the ass.
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I totally understand .... one of the reasons why I like my Canon so much ..... It's 'chunky' to look at and actually feels like you're holding a camera. It also takes 4 AA batteries which makes it slightly heavier than other comparable sized cameras, so it's easier to hold it steady in your hand when your taking a pic.
 
I can recommend the Kodaks -- at least, the ones I've used. I bought a Kodak
Z7590 on clearance recently and I've been impressed with it so far. I had considered one of the Panasonic Lumix cameras (with the Leica lens) for about $100 more than I finally spent. The Kodak has a 10x zoom, is easy to use, and does pretty well on battery life (it has a built-in rechargeable). I have a friend who got a Kodak Z650 for her graduation present and she brought it back from Europe with some great pictures.
 
gmoney said:
I love my Sony Cybershot. It's good on battery life, too. Go to Amazon.com and you will find good reviews on almost any product there.
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I've got a Sony cybershot DSCP51 it's a few years old but works great
 
I have a Nikon coolpix3700 it cost £140 uk. It's only 3 megapixel but that is bigger than my monitor. Has Lion rechargeable batteries, great movie mode, time lapse videos or pics, up to 4 sec exposure for fireworks etc. macro mode, optical zoom, choice of auto / manual and preset scenes and it fits in my pocket. Here's some reduced examples http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gamriebay/Pics/pics.html
 
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