What digital camera to get + printer for some photos?

[RussianSensation]

Hi. My dad wants to buy a new camera and a printer and he wants my advice (which I lack in this case, that is why I came here).

He says he wants a reasonably priced printer that is able to print decent pictures. I thought Canon and HP made good printers for general use, but for photos, I am not sure (once you take into consideration printing documents with text and photos as well). Last time I followed this stuff, i850 and 960 from canon I recall were good. What about CANON PIXMA iP4000 $130?

For cameras, I want something fairly portable, but not too expensive.
I was looking at: Canon S60 5.0megapixel ($260)

I read that canon cameras have cheaper memory than Sony, slightly better detail levels. The problem is, even Canon has SD400/450/550, priced very closely. I can't decide or I simply don't know the difference. S60 has 3.6 optical zoom, but I am not sure if that's a great enough advantage.

I am open to ANY suggestions and have little preference for brands. I think a decent level of detail and vibrant colour (sony?) are very important. My dad is the guy that will point and shoot -- so primarily for family shots, vacations, tourism, no necessary need for a fast camera since won't be taking F1 shots

Thanks.

 

[phaxmohdem]

I think those are two very good options. Whatever camera you get, find one with a decent OPTICAL zoom. Digital zoom = teh sux0rz

 

[Robor]

My SD400 just arrived today. I'm a total novice at digital cameras but this thing is easy to use and IMO takes pretty nice pics. Plus, even I was able to figure out how to use it with only one glance at the user manual to figure out how to download the pics (had to be in playback mode). If you look on Slickdeals there's a posted deal for them from Dell and about 4 or 5 pages into the thread another deal that's not quite as good but you don't have to jump through hoops.

 

[John P]

You can get a Fuji F10 for the same price and actually have a digital camera that does well in low light, a downfall of most P&S digital cameras, since you can adjust the ISO all the way to 1600.

Do a google search for some reviews.

 

[DRAGoNX515]

I have the Canon ip4000 and I love it.
It's a great printer if you are looking for value and quality all in one. The canon ink cartriges are normally the cheapest on the market and the also normally last the longest. The cartriges that came with my ip4000 lasted for (i can't really remember) like i'm guessing 4 months with alot of photo printing (I must have printed a couple hundred pages whith at least 50 being photos). There was a review of it at Toms Hardware if i remeber correctly so you can look there to get a closer look at it.

-dragonx

 

[RussianSensation]

John P thanks for the Fuji camera, I'll look into it.

I just looked and Newegg has SD450 for $300 + 512mb flash card + $50 off pixma printers. If I get the S60 for example, I'd have to buy 512mb flash $40-50 + i lose $50 on the printer. That means it'll come to about the same for both of these options.

So which camera is better for image quality SD450 or S60? What about SD550 (worth spending extra $60-75 over SD450?

 

[dolica]

Originally posted by: John P.
You can get a Fuji F10 for the same price and actually have a digital camera that does well in low light, a downfall of most P&S digital cameras, since you can adjust the ISO all the way to 1600.

Do a google search for some reviews.

Fuji F10 is a great camera, but the downside of it is that it uses xD cards and the design isn't as slick as Canon SD series..

 

[dolica]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
John P thanks for the Fuji camera, I'll look into it.

I just looked and Newegg has SD450 for $300 + 512mb flash card + $50 off pixma printers. If I get the S60 for example, I'd have to buy 512mb flash $40-50 + i lose $50 on the printer. That means it'll come to about the same for both of these options.

So which camera is better for image quality SD450 or S60? What about SD550 (worth spending extra $60-75 over SD450?

I will prefer the 450 over the 550 becoz they're just 2 mega pixel in difference, 5mp and 7mp. Unless your a die hard fan of mega pixel to blow up your pix, i don't c a reason y to get 7mp. I'm not sure on the S60 haven't look into it.

However, i did heard from a photographer of mine said that panasonic fz30k (not sure if that's the model) is really nice. Its good for indoor and outdoor shooting with image stablizer.. but street price i think is around 600 bux...

As for myself, i'm thinking of getting sony T5 becoz my gf thinks it is a cute baby and I can't do $#%#$% about it... well.. at least its new and slick

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16830150066