I need an advice on picking a Digital Camera

[Powermoloch]

Hi there !!!!!! (waves). First of all, My mom :/ .....told me that we need a camera, and she is interested with those "digital cameras" these days. I'm no braniac on this category, I'm hoping that you guys can recommend Digital cameras that can be easy to handle, and readily accessible to transfer its files via computer. Of course the budget is 100-200 or 300 if necessary.

Thanks !

 

[foodfightr]

I'm selling a sony mavica MVC-CD500 digital camera, it burns your pictures straight to mini-cd/rw discs. Pretty cool feature, also has laser aim (like a laser pointer) and tons of extra features.

$350 shipped w/ 8 discs

 

[dolica]

What mega pixel ur looking at, design, zoom, and etc?

Overall I think Canon SD400 has really good rating.

If you just want something cheap, you can look at Canon A520.. its a 4 mega pixel but have nice reviews...

newegg has really nice category search that u can look into...

http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=12

If you want some good quality, Fuji F10 might be ur best bet, but the memory card (xD) is a bit expensive.

 

[MrX8503]

Powermoloch the only cameras i buy are from canon because its at a decent price, high quality photos, and their memeory cards are cheap.

 

[0roo0roo]

dpreview.com
http://www.dcresource.com/
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/
http://www.imaging-resource.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/

get a canon
amazon.com has good prices

i recently got a 610 for 279. the 510/520 range are cheaper..still good

personally i wouldn't go below 5 megapixels and think 100-200 is a little cheap. course this depends on your budget. just realize the sensors aren't perfect yet and cheap consumer cams sensors are tiny and really only provide noise free images at 50-100iso settings, no matter how much higher they can be set. image quality depends on lense quality/image sensor size/quality/processor combination. so yea megapixels by themselves aren't the perfect way to judge. the really expensive dslr's have up to full film sized sensors that provide clear images at high iso, its why they cost several k but still, below 5mp i don't think you have enough detail or freedom to crop your images after.

and stay away from sony...you realize why their camera prices are suspisciously normal when you are stuck buying their expensive proprietary memory sticks.

and this http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69559,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2