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Well I have $$ comming and need to know..Best Digital Camera $300-$400 range?

Canon S30. It's what I recently bought and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I believe it's slightly over $400 at online sites like buygig.com. Check Pricegrabber.com for a good deal.
 
If you wanna stay under $400 and plan on getting memory and batteries and all the other goodies to make your camera work then you will probably want to stay in the 2 Megapixel range. I'd recommend the new Canon A40. Retails for $299 and has a 3x optical zoom. Olympus has their new D-520z, which has more or less identical specs. The new Sony DSCP-51 will be out soon, though it can only take 2 AA batteries so battery life will probably be less than the others. Each of those 3 use a different type of memory card, the Canon's CF card is expandable to 1GB though.
 


<< If you wanna stay under $400 and plan on getting memory and batteries and all the other goodies to make your camera work then you will probably want to stay in the 2 Megapixel range. I'd recommend the new Canon A40. Retails for $299 and has a 3x optical zoom. Olympus has their new D-520z, which has more or less identical specs. The new Sony DSCP-51 will be out soon, though it can only take 2 AA batteries so battery life will probably be less than the others. Each of those 3 use a different type of memory card, the Canon's CF card is expandable to 1GB though. >>



AK has a point. By the time I got a larger CF card and a spare battery, I had added more than a hundred bucks to my cost (more if you count the 1GB IBM Microdrive I got for extended vacations).
 
The S30 is also a very nice camera as AmusedOne pointed out. You will go over your budget after accessories though.
 
if you head on over to techb@rgains.net, I remember seeing a post where you can buy a S40 for under $400. That is a really really good deal on an excellent camera. I have the S30 myself and couldn't be happier.
 


<< if you head on over to techb@rgains.net, I remember seeing a post where you can buy a S40 for under $400. That is a really really good deal on an excellent camera. I have the S30 myself and couldn't be happier. >>



That deal is no longer possible.
 
I spent as much on accessories for my camera as was paid for my camera ($800).

Bags & cases, memory, lenses, batteries, cleaning supplies...

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The question remains, what are you going to be taking pictures of?
 
Well I have a couple of 35MM camera's, so I can use them when I need "Quality" pic's.

I just had a Sony Mavica (Older lower end one) ripped off.

I liked the features it offered. You could do effects, LCD view, video capture, and I liked being able to store pic's to floppies though the quality wasn't that high.

Idealy I would like one with the same features and if it used the same kind of battery that would be a BIG plus (The lowlife didn't get the $50 charger I had just bought)
 
Whichever digicam you decide to buy, try and get it from Dell Home since they are offering 10% off plus $50 off $400, both of these coupons can be combined.

Canon, Olympus and Nikon all make excellent digicams.
 
I am also looking. So far the cannon s30 or s40 look like the best bet for a point and shoot with semi professional abilities.

I was surprised to find out that one of the FCC radio books that I inherited from a recent retiree has pictures taken with an s30 in it. These are excellent quality with great detail. That sold me.
 
In my poking around, I saw mention of the fact that the G2 is 100.00 more than the S40. If that's true, it would put the G2 at about the $500.00 point. Hmmm, lowest price for that is still up in the $670.00 range and Sears doesn't offer it, so no price match there.
 
The Sony looks like it offers some decent features for the money, but I will personally never buy a sony until they start offering an industry supported media. This proprietary crap was soooooo ten years ago.

For a couple lookers, check out the fuji finepix 2800, and the Minolta Dimage S304/S404 depending upon price.
 
I don't know about you...but I have several devices that accept CF or SD media...like my laptop, my PDA, my already existing card reader, ect. So do a lot of other people out there, like my family and friends. If I bought a sony camera, that only used sony memory sticks, then I'd have to have a sony reader of sorts at each of these places that I'd like to view my pictures at.

There are many times when I'll yank out my media card, toss it in carrier, and then haul it either to work or over to a friends house to look at the pics. Same goes for viewing while out and about. I can yank the card out of my camera and toss it into my PDA for storage.

No can do with memory sticks. Got to have a special reader to use them.

Bleh.
 
"Got to have a special reader to use them."

You mean like the camera itself? 😀

I heard the same crap when I was buying a Hi-8 camcorder over VHS-C. The Hi-8 has FAR better picture and sound, records for 2 full hours and is far cheaper than VHS-C, yet I'm supposed to buy VHS-C because it can play (via expensive adapter) in a standard VHS deck? Uh, I can play my Hi-8 tape out to any TV using a cheap, $3.00 RCA cable quicker than you can load a VHS-C into it's adapter and plug it in a VCR! Same with the camera. Just plug in the USB cord and go! No special readers at all!

Price-wise, it's the same as CompactFlash...

128MB Memory Stick is priced exactly the same as 128MB CompactFlash Memory.
 
Personally I both love and hate how Sony's products use Sony Memory Stick media.

I hate it because I wish they'd adhere to the "industry standard" CF or SM.

I like it because Memory Stick media is easily interchangeable between a Sony digicam (which suck), Sony VAIO laptop, Sony VAIO desktop, Sony camcorders, etc.

Anyone who uses CF, SM, SD or Memory Stick media should own a 6-in-1 reader which reads ALL of those media formats plus 2 more. Might I suggest the Dazzle 6-in-1 reader for around $20 after rebate?

Just say no to Sony digicams.

😀
 
I don't get why everybody insists on handling this media. I'd just buy a big stick and leave it in the camera. Perhaps a backup stick in case I need more room for a vacation trip or something. But it would stay in the camera at all times as far as I'm concerned.
 


<< I don't get why everybody insists on handling this media. I'd just buy a big stick and leave it in the camera. Perhaps a backup stick in case I need more room for a vacation trip or something. But it would stay in the camera at all times as far as I'm concerned. >>



I yank out the media and put it in a card reader to conserve battery life on the camera.

Also, I'm not familiar with the Sony setup, but I highly doubt that it's as simple as "plug and go". Even Microsoft USB devices require a driver to install them.

I really don't want to have to carry around a setup cd to install the camera drivers onto a relatives computer when I could just as easily yank out the media card and slap in in their reader.
 
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