Digital Camera Recommendations

[Caveman]

Brand, model, good mail order house to buy one, etc... Anyone have any advice or previous experience?

 

[Yzzim]

A price range would be nice.
Also list off what you're going to do with it.
Professional use?

 

[Caveman]

Sorry, bad post... terribly vague...

$750 or thereabouts -- preferably lower...
Want great picture quality at 8-1/2 x 11" so thinking 3.1 MP
home use... Was looking at a Sony I saw at Best Buy... It had lots of "features" such as the ability to take a "picture of a picture" by zooming on the LCD screen... Nice menu driven screen for easy navigation... Basically just want to take good stills at 8-1/2 x 11" with maybe the chance of taking a short MPEG although really not too important...

 

[corkyg]

Yzzim has it right . . . the whole thing is based on what exactly can you afford? In digital cameras, like anything else, you usually get what you pay for.

OK . . . you answered that while I was writing.

For $750 you can get several good digitals. I am now on my 4th and about to go for a 5th . . . always getting a better one.

First, my view is that cameras are best made by camera people. Stick with Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Kodak, and Fujifilm. Sony is cute and gimmicky, but very proprietary, especially with removable memory (the lonely Memory Stick.)

Today I would opt for one that uses Type II Compact Flash and can thus take advantage of the IBM Microdrive. Go here and enter all your parameters and see what you come up with.

Digicams

I would give this one high marks at less than $600.

Canon PowerShot G1
Mfg Part No: CNPSG1

2048 x 1536 Max Resolution, 3340000 pixel Image Sensor, 3x Optical Zoom, LCD Display, USB Connectivity, Movie Capture, CompactFlash Type II Storage, built-in Flash

 

[GTaudiophile]

Best review site: DPreview.com

I recommend the Canon D30 if you're a professional, but it costs around $3,000. Otherwise, look at the Canon G2 ($900 or so) and the Nikon CoolPix 995. Also, check out the Sony DSC-F707.

 

[CZroe]

I think convienience is the best factor. Basically, I think a digital camera should eliminate the "boy I wish I could show that little unimportant thing to my ______" problem as well as provide an excelent image for the "My God I've gotta have a picture of that!" situation. The ultra-small 2.1Mpixel Canon Powershot Digital Elph s100 is PERFECT. It once (and maybe still?) held the record for smallest 2.1Mpixel camera. Now I think the latest in the Digital Elph series crams 3.3Mpixels into the same package but I'm not sure...

 

[Arundel]

I would recommend the Powershot G1 - takes great pictures and is pretty sturdy. I wouldn't recommend you buy anything until you go to a camera store and play around with them first though.
SF

 

[pmark]

I agree with CyberZer0. That was my exact thinking when I got the Canon S100. I figure the reason why I wanted to get a digital camera was so I could take lots of pictures that I won't normally take. Reason being, my normal camera was too big to carry, picture wasn't important to waste film, etc. So being able to take it with me where ever I go was high on my priority list. I figure that if it was too big then it would just sit at home.

People might argue that the pictures aren't as great on those tiny cameras, which is kind of true. The pictures are average, but it I'm going to take beautiful landscape pictures, I'll use a normal camera, not a digital camera.