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[Insertia]

GAF photographers, is it possible to find a quality digitial cam in that price range?

If so recomendations plz!

 

[BlueTsunami]

The Nikon Coolpix cameras a good cameras for around that range. My parents go my sis an L3 around last August for her birthday and its a good Point and Shoot digital camera.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Pros: Long battery life (400 pictures per charge)
Anti-shake
HUGE LCD screen
Takes common SD cards which are cheap

Cons: Red Eye
Poor night pictures
Must be on dock to charge/transfer pictures.

 

[Instigator]

Anything but Sony.

 

[mrkgoo]

Anything but Sony.

What's wrong with Sony?

 

[MoxManiac]

I'd like a sony since I could use my psp mem sticks

 

[koam]

What's wrong with Sony?

Durability = crap
Proprietory Media
quality is meh

 

[Jive Turkey]

Durability = crap
Proprietory Media
quality is meh

And that's being nice about it. Seriously...Buying a Sony camera is a bad idea...Especially in the low end.

 

[Draff]

That's not necessarily true.. lots of Sony digital cams have reviewed very well.

Check out dpreview, dcresource or steves digicams for more info.

 

[Instigator]

What's wrong with Sony?

Check who started the topic...

 

[BlueTsunami]

Sony cams are alright, they get good reviews. The issue really comes down to you paying premium price for the Sony name (lol PS3). You can get a comparable Cannon or Nikon cam for $50 less in most cases

 

[Justin Bailey]

Canon PowerShot 530 or 540.

 

[mrkgoo]

I had a sony T1, and I thought it was great - perhaps slightly expensive, but still solid - still working. Sure it had it's flaws, but for most people it's fine.

It really depends on what you want out of your camera - how much stuff like customisability, image quality, user friendliness, range of shots you want etc matter to you. For the most part though, all portable digital ceameras are all pretty decent at doing what they do, which is largely to take snapshots.

 

[mrkgoo]

Check who started the topic...

Sony Defence Force? I'm more confused now.

Anyway, i second the Canon powershot530/5540. But again, I still think most cameras at this level are pretty similar - a lot depends on preference of style, like if you want something to be poacketable etc. Personally, if I were to buy somthing in this range I'd be looking for less chormatic aberration, access to manual functions, noise level of the sensor, size of the sensor, focal range and so on...but I realise most consumers are more into things like battery life, battery type, megapixels, optical zoom range and so on.

What I never get is how people buy the largest megapixel camera they can (and disregarding whether or not that translates into image quality), and then set it to much lower to fit more pictures on the card. I guess having the option to take some kind of high resolution landscape or something is there... But I think for the most users of consumer digicams just leave it on a particular setting that is good for tehm, and then never change it.

 

[golem]

fujifilm f20