Best digital camera for £150ish?
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Hi, just got a little present from work and want to finally replace my film camera. Now, I don't suppose £150 will get me the top line in digital cameras by any stretch, but I want an ipod too and in any event all I need is something that's reasonable and can take a decent photo. Ideally something with a decent amount of memory, easy to use and can cope with moving targets - basically a good general use 'starter' camera?
Any thoughts or places to look? Is the budget reasonable? Cheers, S
Any thoughts or places to look? Is the budget reasonable? Cheers, S
Really in that range you are looking at something like the Canon Powershot A85 (£145), though I would spend a little bit more and get the Ixus 430 or Ixus 30 (both £169) as they are much more compact and the 30 has a newer, faster processor and does proper 30frames per second (i.e. not jerky) video too...
You will of course need some memory on top of this, as the 32MB or so you get with them isn't enough, so budget about £30-40 for this too.
Those prices are from www.7dayshop.com - the cheapest place you will find.
I only quoted Canons as I am a big Canon fan, though there are other makes.
Have a look at 7dayshop in your pricerange, then have a look the the reviews for those cameras on either www.steves-digicams.com or www.dpreview.com and decide...
You will of course need some memory on top of this, as the 32MB or so you get with them isn't enough, so budget about £30-40 for this too.
Those prices are from www.7dayshop.com - the cheapest place you will find.
I only quoted Canons as I am a big Canon fan, though there are other makes.
Have a look at 7dayshop in your pricerange, then have a look the the reviews for those cameras on either www.steves-digicams.com or www.dpreview.com and decide...
Casio Exilim EX-S3
3mm thick, so fits in your wallet, 2Mb pics. lots of features.
have a look at my skiing folder for examples of the shots.
http://community.webshots.com/user/s2ooz
3mm thick, so fits in your wallet, 2Mb pics. lots of features.
have a look at my skiing folder for examples of the shots.
http://community.webshots.com/user/s2ooz
Bee_Jay said:
Really in that range you are looking at something like the Canon Powershot A85 (£145)
I'll second that - have got the A75, which is only 3.2Mp, not 4.0Mp, but apparently they use the same lens/chip/whatever it is, and just "up the boost" on the A85, which marginally reduces quality (so I'm told!).
The A75 is very good - easy to use, photo's are excellent quality, some nice touches. My only complaint, and I guess this is generic digi-camera stuff, is the delay between pressing the button and taking the photo.
stumartin said:
Can't find it? Have seen a DSC P100 though, which looks tasty. What are your views on pentax?
www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/46149/art/sony/cybershot-dsc-p93.html
That's the beasty!
most of mine are taken with my A70 which I'm relatively happy with. Has enough manual controls to allow you to learn and play, whilst still offering full automatic when you want/need it. You can get rid of all the shutter delay using manual controls and the quality of the pictures is prtty good.
There is only three things I'd improve on it,
* the size is on the chunky size meaning it's too big for a pocket, yet it's too small to be a "proper" camera.
* The optical zoom just isn't good enough - you need more, but then not many compacts come with more than 3x anyway
* The f-stop values could do with getting to smaller apertures for close up shots, but then at least you can fiddle with them in the first place
Well worth the money IMO, it even takes AA batteries which if you get 2300mAh jobies last ages (easily 200pics non flash) and has the cheaper CF cards
There is only three things I'd improve on it,
* the size is on the chunky size meaning it's too big for a pocket, yet it's too small to be a "proper" camera.
* The optical zoom just isn't good enough - you need more, but then not many compacts come with more than 3x anyway
* The f-stop values could do with getting to smaller apertures for close up shots, but then at least you can fiddle with them in the first place
Well worth the money IMO, it even takes AA batteries which if you get 2300mAh jobies last ages (easily 200pics non flash) and has the cheaper CF cards
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