help me find a digital camera....

[snake75]

ok I need a Digital Camera, best one I can get but cheap as possible.....suggestions please!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

All welcome to the king of vague!

 

[Lazarus]

All welcome to the king of vague!

Someone to take over your mantle?







































NOT!

 

[snake75]

im not a king im a princess, and i just want a goddamn cheap digital camera thats not crap, didnt ask for sarcasm thank u

 

[Will]

You'll need to give more details...approx budget, what you consider crap, do you want a flash, how much storage you think you'll need, etc etc.

 

[Lazarus]

You'll need to give more details...approx budget, what you consider crap, do you want a flash, how much storage you think you'll need, etc etc.

and how much sarcasm you are willing to accept *




*not that we pay much attention to that

 

[Doh_boy]

I got an Olympus 450, it's fairly cheap and good for a brain-less point and click camera. Otherwise go for the canon a60-70-80 (is there a 90?) which are very good.

Don't buy sony cameras!

 

[Whipped]

There's some good threads in the imaging forum that helped me decide to buy my Cannon Powershot A70. Well pleased with it.

 

[dysfunction]

£244 for thisCanon S50 which includes VAt and Delivery.

Its a super camera and well worth the money!!

 

[SoWat]

I just replaced my aging HP camera for a dinky little 4 megapixel Pentax Optio S4i. It fits nicely into a shirt pocket and takes great pictures. About £250 from Capital Sound and Vision Crawley (aka www.unbeatable.co.uk).

They also do a 3.1 megapixel version for about £175, though the 4 megapixel non-movie version is a better buy at £189.

 

[Athan]

One thing I'd say is to get a camera with optical zoom if at all possible. Mine doesn't have it, and whilst I mostly use it for party pic type purposes and it's not so important there I DO miss having optical zoom (it's a Fuji MX-2700 with a digital zoom, but that's a bit naff).

Resolution wise the 2.3MP on mine is probably more than enough (640x480 or 1800x1200 resulting images). Given you're after something cheap I doubt you're wanting to do anything even vaguely professional with it that would benefit from higher resolution.

-Ath

 

[Ch3tan]

If you can stretch to £250, then the s50 that Dys suggested will not let you down. Fantastic camera, hardly a budget model though.

 

[Nos]

Nicely cheap, very compact 3.1mp digital camera which would be great to take on nights out etc!

Fuji FinePix A120 @ £72!

 

[Stazbumpa]

The Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg costs £160 ish and owns big time. ~About the size of a pack of cards and takes fab photos. Can't provide a link coz their webby seems to have melted though.

 

[babs]

Whatever you get get the best prices you can from the net (something like uk.pricerunner.com) and take printouts with you into a local Jessops. They have a policy they don't advertise too heavily whereby they'll do their best to match any price provided the place you have the price from has it in stock. I used it last april and bought my Canon Powershot A70 for £230 when they had it priced for £300!

I'm very glad I did, the power button broke after a couple of hours so they did me a straight swap no questions asked, I haven't had a moments trouble from the replacement.

 

[Will]

My girlfriends Mum used Jessop's online price to get a discount from a Jessop's store. I think a certain amount of insistance was required for that one.

 

[Shovel]

I had a Nikon Coolpix 775, other than the terrible marketeer's name, a very very nice camera. I imagine that it's been replaced by newer Nikon models (it's a couple of years old, was something around £250 when new).

What ever you get, don't leave it on a train

 

[Athan]

It was a random TCR shop not Jessops, but I did a similar thing when buying my MX-2700 back in 1999. I knew I could get it for £435 online and said this to the shop owner when I saw the price around £100 over that and he happily brought his price down.
Cost me £80 for an additional 32MB Smart Media card back then too. Oh how times have changed on the prices of both the cameras and the storage.

The total of £515 was why I wasn't going to pay the extra £100-150 for a model with optical zoom.

-Ath

 

[Clown]

The A80 is at Argos for £200.