Recommendations for digital camera for around £250
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Can anyone recommend a decent digital camera for around £250? My brother is after one for Christmas, and wants some Sony jobbie that costs £600 but for what he wants to use if for, I reckon he doesn't need to spend anything more than £250.
I'm a bit of a Canon fan, so I reckon the A70 or A80 would be a good choice, but just wondered what everyone else thought?
I'm a bit of a Canon fan, so I reckon the A70 or A80 would be a good choice, but just wondered what everyone else thought?
I have the Fuji FinePix S304z, excellent little camera for point and shoot idiots like me, it may come in at a shade under £300 though.
It's predecessor is still available at around £250 it's the 2800z or some such, I have seen it recently on www.novatech.co.uk
It's predecessor is still available at around £250 it's the 2800z or some such, I have seen it recently on www.novatech.co.uk
I've got a Canon A70. For about £250 it's good deal, and at $280US it was even better! Not so small or light, but it's got great usability and a full set of manual overrides should you want them. It takes AA batteries which is handy should you ever run out of juice miles away from a charger. Picture quality has been well up to scratch.
If you can afford it the A80 is supposed to be even better, with the same sensor and image processing as the S50.
Cheers,
Pete
If you can afford it the A80 is supposed to be even better, with the same sensor and image processing as the S50.
Cheers,
Pete
Well we're all going to recommend our own cameras 'cos we thought they were the best! So blatantly joining in - I bought this as I found it for £229 at Amazon and loved the cuteness.
www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/stylus300.html
Only major thing is that the AF is poor in low light.
www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/stylus300.html
Only major thing is that the AF is poor in low light.
If you want to compare specs, try
www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/
you can select and compare specs by using the 'compare & contrast digital cameras' bottom left of home page.
www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/
you can select and compare specs by using the 'compare & contrast digital cameras' bottom left of home page.
To be honest the reason for choosing mine was the optical zoom.
I was at the time using a Sony Mavica which stored images on Floppy Disks (it was a freebie) and was in fact an excellent camera I took loads of motorsports shots and the beauty was it was an instant picture. What wasn't quite so good was using bleedin' floppy drives as a media and it was only 350k(?) pixels good enough for 640x480 at very most.
My new one is about 3.24MP and good for 1600x1200 (I think) but not so good at those instant pictures although some time spent playing with the manual setting may change that.
I was at the time using a Sony Mavica which stored images on Floppy Disks (it was a freebie) and was in fact an excellent camera I took loads of motorsports shots and the beauty was it was an instant picture. What wasn't quite so good was using bleedin' floppy drives as a media and it was only 350k(?) pixels good enough for 640x480 at very most.
My new one is about 3.24MP and good for 1600x1200 (I think) but not so good at those instant pictures although some time spent playing with the manual setting may change that.
.Mark said:
It's predecessor is still available at around £250 it's the 2800z or some such
Fantastic little camera, I use it for all of my photography as I'm just learning.
Jessops are actually doing it for £170 at the moment www.jessops.co.uk/shop.cfm
Graham
PS. Can't help with what camera to get as I'm not experienced enough...yet
>> Edited by Graham.J on Wednesday 17th December 00:34
Whatever you buy, why not buy it off the net, such as Amazon etc.. I bought my sony p10 for £284 from comet on line, who price matched amazon. They said any problems i could take bact to a local store. The cheapest i could get it anywhere on the high st was £350. I think jessops was £450 at the time.
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