advice for new digital camera?

My 35mm camera broke and I am finally going to buy a digital camera. I would like to spend around $200. Any advice? I don't know ANYTHING about them and about megapixels. I just want clear pictures!! Thanks.

Originally Posted by cincocatz

My 35mm camera broke and I am finally going to buy a digital camera. I would like to spend around $200. Any advice? I don't know ANYTHING about them and about megapixels. I just want clear pictures!! Thanks.

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Make sure whatever you get has lots of storage (either by way of internal memory or a memory card, or both), and that it's easy to get the photos OFF whatever the memory type is. You don't want a lot of extra bogus software to bog down your system. That's my best advice. We bought a high-end digital last year for $800, which I love, but I have no experience with the lower end so maybe someone can help you out with photo quality.

To get prints, I recommend dotphoto.com. I've used them for a couple of years... just upload your photo files, order, and they're in your mailbox within the week! As a matter of fact they have monthly photo contests. I came in 3rd once with a "morphed" photo of Mika, and won 50 free prints!

Get a minimum of 2megapixels and a max of 4megapixels. 2 is really all you need, but for clarity, 3 might be better. The more megapixels there are, the larger the picture. I've got a Canon A60 which is 2mp, and while it's a great starter camera, pictures can come out fuzzy and with soft edges. I've gotten some good pics with it, but I'm dying for something better. One camera I'm looking at is the Olympus C-5500 which is 4mp, I believe, but it's one of the few ones I've found that'll take good action shots (and since the only thing I ever take pictures of are animals, that's what I need). Check out http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html as you can find reviews on practically any digital camera. Make sure to check other places too, of course, since I've found cameras that had rave reviews on this site and less-than-pleased reviews from people who bought it at Amazon or something. And check out epinions.com as they have reviews too.

For camera brands, look at Canon, Nikon, and Olympus, as they're great brands (Canon and Nikon are the most trustworthy of all brands, or so I'm told). I believe Sony might be another good brand, but I'm not sure. Make sure to do a lot of research, lol, since it sucks to spend $300 and find out the camera isn't quite what you want.

YES! For places to look to buy, I recommend www.buy.com. Their electronics can be soooo much cheaper than local. I bought a high tech universal remote for hubby at Christmas there for $99, when Best Buy had it for $199!!!

Ours is a Sony... takes beautiful photos on Auto mode... even better from hubby in manual (and I thought I was the "amateur photographer"). Since I've met him, I've gone completely off of point-and-shoot cameras, so I probably won't be much help!

This is the camera I have! Dimage S414 If you click through these few pages, it will give you an idea of everything it can do.

It cost a couple hundred. Not very expensive. Takes good pictures and It also takes video(with sound).

I love it so far. I really dont know ANYthing about any camera. Never have. But for me, just aim, and click... the pictures are great, even if I can use the fancy-shmancy features.

Thanks for all the advice, now I have somewhere to start. I am kind of "electonically challenged" and it helps to know what others recommend.

I have a 3.2 mp Kodak that I like really well all the pics in my photobucket album were taken with it.

http://photobucket.com/albums/a77/BigKittenDaddy/

we have a 5.0mp cannon that we spent just under $300 for. it works great, has good zoom capabilities, a decent sized screen to view the pictures you've already taken and is really easy to transfer pictures to the computer. all we have to do is plug the cord that came with it into a USB port and windows (we have xp) asks if you want to view the pics or save them to a file on the computer.

Originally Posted by amirando

we have a 5.0mp cannon that we spent just under $300 for. it works great, has good zoom capabilities, a decent sized screen to view the pictures you've already taken and is really easy to transfer pictures to the computer. all we have to do is plug the cord that came with it into a USB port and windows (we have xp) asks if you want to view the pics or save them to a file on the computer.

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my husband brought me a fujifilm finepix for $600, it had the same easy USB cord and just asks if you want to store them etc.

with any digital camera try to get at least 3-4 megapixels



felicia

I'm going to get a new camera for christmas this year. Another Kodak Easyshare one, I wanted one that was 5mega pixels but after reading on here I might rethink and get one with 4. Can't go wrong with Kodak

I have an Olympus Stylus 500. I love it because it has a big view screen & after a small learning curve, it is easy to use. It took me a while to narrow down what I need & wanted in a camera, at a price that I could afford. My Olympus was the result of that research.
I will be looking forward to seeing your new pictures.
This may not be the right camera for you but here is a link if you would like to take a look.
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_se...7&product=1149
I paid $229 after rebates.
Lei