What camera

wolram

I know nothing about cameras, i think i had a box brownie or some such when i was a kid, so what camera can i buy that will work with a computer
and does not cost mega bucks?

JamesU

not that I can answer your question, but how many threads have you started in the last week? You may be becomming pengwuino's apprentice

wolram

Did some one speak what is a pengwuino

JamesU

hopefully a banned member

wolram

Gottcha, that bloby thing with funny ears

NoTime

Try the cereal isle in the grocery store.
They probably have one as a prize

wolram

Does no one take life seriously any more? such an esteemed forum and all i get is noise

Chi Meson

Pretty much any digital camera works with any computer through a USB cable. Some use firewire, but that is not necessary for still pictures. If you want low cost, look on Ebay. I saw some decent name brand "point and shoot" digital camera go for $10 (postage was more expensive).

Olymus, Nikon, Canon are trusty brands. For a good point and shoot cameras, I would expect to pay (starting at) $300 for no less than 4 megapixels.

brewnog

Got a lovely Minolta Dimage Xg to replace my old film 'idiot' camera.

If it's just for holiday snaps look for anything upward of 3.5 megapixels, anything from Nikon, Olympus, Canon, Minolta or Fuji. Don't be swayed by silly optical zoom lenses or loads of daft features, just make sure it's a nice bright lens, not too big an LCD panel (battery life!), rechargeable, and splash out on a nice big memory stick. Anything upwards of £130 on one of these brands and if you're not too fussy you won't be complaining. Get down to Jessops and ask to have a play with a few, then get yourself onto the interweb for the best prices.

I very rarely use my SLRs these days.

larkspur

My travel camera is a Fuji Finepix E550. I love it. It takes nice pictures and also video with sound.

moose

Do not get a vivitar. Fuji has some really nice new cameras. Fuji and Canon generally have really good colors.

visit
www.dpreview.com
^^ best site ever

hypatia

I have a very cheap Kodak, that works really well. D/L's are so easy with any camera these days.


When I can find it that is. Its been MIA for 8 months now.

chroot

These days, Canon is generally regarded as making the best all-around digital cameras. The other manufacturers are really not that far behind, though, so price or availability could easily be a swaying factor.

After a *lot* of research, I bought a Canon SD450, which is a very small (mostly) point-and-shoot kinda camera. It has a beautiful display, a very easy and intuitive interface, and takes incredibly good pictures for its very small size.

I also have a larger, much more expensive digital camera, a Sony F717, which admittedly takes better photos than the Canon, but is nearly the size of an SLR. I hardly ever use it anymore -- convenience often trumps a slight edge in photo quality when you're not an expert photographer.

- Warren

larkspur

I also have a Canon Digital Rebel. So far, I have had to send it for repair of the shutter curtain two times. I have had it a year and a half. There is a serious flaw in the shutter curtain mechanism.

chroot

The camera I mentioned, the SD450, is not a Rebel. I don't know anything about their SLR problems, but the SD450 is a top-of-its-class little camera.

- Warren

wolram

Thanks for advice every one, i will keep my eye out for an canon sd450.

fargoth

the SD450 only has x3 zoom... that's really not enough if you intend on getting faces of people or pictures of things that aren't really really close to you....

i got the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2, and it's great, i think the Z3 is about the same price now, so i'd suggest this model.

it has x12 optical zoom instead of x10 that the z2 has, and 4 mega-pixels instead of 3.4...
both models have manual control over every thing (along with the automatic), so if you'd learn what everything does, you could get proffesional looking pictures.
if you want an example, i could post some really great pictures i got with this camera.
it looks like national geographic pictures.


and as a side note - don't pay any attention to the digital zoom - it's just software resize, you dont get more details, optical zoom is the actual zoom the camera has.