Topic: Which Digi Camera

[ciaozzy]

Yo peeps

soon I wil be in the market for a digi camera... trouble iz I was a bit of a snapper with my slr camera and digi cams I have sen that offer the same sort of style are way out of my price range...

can definately do 80 squidleys

might be able to stretch to 150 squidleys... but that would mean
the leccy and gas peeps hving to wait for their bread..


have seen a polaroid for 80 sqid
3.2 mega pixels... blah blah blah

in the old camera market polaroid not very good, and must
confess t having no idea whatsoever about the digi market..

thanks in advance

Oz

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[SueT]

Hi Oz, I have a 2.0 mega pixel Olympus which was a little under £100, it takes great pics!  ;D

[SueT]

Forgot to say manufacturers aren`t very generous with the size of the memory cards they supply with their cameras.  Amazon have good deals, my 128MB SmartMedia card was £24.79, you can take hundreds of pics  :)

[tim]

So difficult to answer.  'Specially if you're buying blind on the web.
1. You don't need more than 2 mp for everyday pics.
2. Easy  to hold - ie with a 'bump' on the right.
3. Clear display screen.
4. Then think of how wide or not you want the lens - zoom? and can you add other lenses? Macro?
5. Do go for a big card - esp if on offer.
6. Go for a firm that offers free backup - Canon, for one.
7. Whatever you get will be mindbogglingly better than your last and you'll love it!
8. The gas bill can wait?
9. Small is not necessarily clever. = Tim

On second thoughts, 2 middle sized cards can give you more flexibility - esp if you are frequently downloading? Batteries run out v quickly. Re-chargeables are useful. Or mains lead.  

[colinandyvonne]

This question is often asked on my work newsgroup.  They always rave about Canon, Nikon Coolpix and Olympus for low priced good quality digital cameras.  I'll find the thread again tomorrow and see if their recommendations are within your price range.

One good place to look is http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk

If you've got a Jessops store near where you live you could go along and have a play with the cameras and the good thing being that they also price match.

Argos had an offer on when were looking at buying a digital camera but all our local stores had sold out within hours so toddled off to Jessops who price matched Argos (printout proof from internet and a short phonecall from them) and managed to get a Minolta Dimage 7i half price for £449.

A lot lot more than we intended to pay for a camera but it is the dogs b*llocks.

Y.

[ciaozzy]

Yo peeps

thanx for advice... my old slr, well not realy that old is the minolta dynax 9000i... and is still well capable.. last time Iused it was in bournemouth when "Liberty" the pressure group marched on the tory party conference.... good demo


gona try and wrap me head around the technolgy... and sure like tim will soon grasp the funkyness of digi photography

cHeErs

Oz

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[ciaozzy]

Yo peep

found this site which is dead informative like... explaind all
about digi cameras andputer and stuff like that...

this link lands on page 2, but page one dead easy to click on
.. you may have trouble clicking
on page three, on account that there isn't one :)

http://www.pctechguide.com/19digcam2.htm

hope peeps find it as handy as I have...


Oz

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btw if yoooze sees an edit its because linky not worky properly
and needy fixing loike ::)

[tina]

:-/Can't do links and clever stuff like that, but when I bought a digi camera before Christmas (with Father Christmas money!), I found a load of useful  info on Amazon, of all places.

I def agree about the comment re. getting charger, as they use batterys really quickly!

I had mine narrowed down to 2, about the same price, and apparently almost the same. The difference was that one had optical zoom, and one had digital. Digital zoom isn't great, so def go for the optical if you can.

By the way, mine is a Fuji FinePix A405, which I got half-price at PCWorld online. Good for a basic digi camera, and was under £100.

Enjoy shopping around!

Tina.

[ciaozzy]

Yo Tina

Ta very much for info, I iz going to get the polaroid for 80 squidleys from argos... dont really care about size of mmory  card as I can compose pic b4 shooting.. and will down load frequently... did see battery charger in asda (ooooer) for a tenner... but will shop around..
telephoned puter place today and
they say new puter should be with me by next Friday.. SHOULD?
was supposed to be here on monday 19th Jan... ????

Oz

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[tina]

:-/Hang in there, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait!

All the reviews that I read about Polaroid were good! I wouldn't worry about size of memory if you are going to download often, that's what I do and have had no probs so far.

Do we get a photo of you when you've got it?

(From someone who NEVER has her photo taken, and is always the photographer!!!!).

TTFN.

Tina

[SueT]

Tina I don`t like having my photo taken so keep a firm grip on my camera..........besides I don`t want my soul stolen!! ;)  Well that`s my excuse anyway  ;D

[ciaozzy]

 yes Tina piccy definately winging itz way down here..

I iz told I iz one sexy mofo with attitude... grruh..  gr..
purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr better to purr than to grerwr

seems like only yesterday when it was 4700.... tsk dont time fly.... tsk tsk... i dunno...
watched a fabbo movie 2day, twas one of those dead old silent ones and it was the old black and black movies.. great it was and the scenery was just fabbo.... think the director wanted to take you deep int0 the world that was black and black... starange ending though and when the screen did not change at all during the 3 hour movie just proved how well actors have now bcome in portraying the life that doesnt really exist,,, special effects in this movie was dead unspectacualr and well worth not seeing again next year....  



2 hippy chicks walking down the road

1st hippy chick
 
Mahn you ever been picked up by the fuzz?  

2cd hippy chick

No... but I've been swung around by the teeeets a few times..


......

Oz

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heres the edit,,,, WTF? I was on one last nite all righty... good craic though ... :)