Yet another Digital Camera thread.

[notfred]

Anyone know a good SMALL digital camera? I have an old 2mp kodak camera now, and it works fine, but it's kinda bulky. It'd be cool to have a really small camera (something the size of a deck of cards would be really cool ) that would be easy to carry around. 2 or 3mp is fine, I don't need giant resolution. I usually just shrink pictures down to around 800pixels wide anyway.

Any recommendations would be appreciated

 

[waylman]

take your pick!

 

[RossMAN]

Any of these Dave's picks should work just fine.

 

[Viper GTS]

http://steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/dimagexi.html
http://steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/ex-z3.html

There are others as well, but that should get you started.

Viper GTS

 

[alkemyst]

The Canon Elph S100 is small and can be found on ebay.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

One sweet tiny camera

 

[Sid59]

shouldn't have tossed that PC Photo magazine. it had top 10 mini digital cameras. sorry =\.

head to the book store and read it.

 

[CraigRT]

I got an S230 cause of it's size, but that may not be the "small" you are thinking of... do you want one of those credit card sized ones? or a more useable sized one like the S230?

you could get an S400 or something... they work awesome.. I love digital Elph cameras.

 

[Jetblade]

Perfect deck of cards size!

With awesome features!

Clicky

 

[BigSmooth]

notfred using smileys? Man, you're really sucking up to ATOT to get those DC recommendations, eh?

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
One sweet tiny camera

:Q

this one has to be teh winn4r!

these pictures show the size better than the above link

 

[RossMAN]

Tyler, what's your budget?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

 

[FrOsTxxbYtE]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Any of these Dave's picks should work just fine.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
One sweet tiny camera

:Q

this one has to be teh winn4r!

these pictures show the size better than the above link

the winner with no optical zoom...

wouldn't fit your budget of 300, but the minolta g400 and sony dsc-t1 will be coming out within the next few months and they look hooooot.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

1) Do you have any preference to media type?

2) Just how ultra compact do you want it to be? Would you sacrifice optical zoom for a really small digicam?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

1) Do you have any preference to media type?

2) Just how ultra compact do you want it to be? Would you sacrifice optical zoom for a really small digicam?

1) Not particularly, I've always just plugged my old camera into a USB port to get data off it before. It uses compact flash but I've never really needed to even take the card out. I'll probably do the same thing with the new camera.

2) I'd like it to fit comfortably in my pocket. I'd prefer 2 or 3x optical zoom, but if a camera without it is smaller or cheaper, I might take that, too. It really depends on the whole camera.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

1) Do you have any preference to media type?

2) Just how ultra compact do you want it to be? Would you sacrifice optical zoom for a really small digicam?

1) Not particularly, I've always just plugged my old camera into a USB port to get data off it before. It uses compact flash but I've never really needed to even take the card out. I'll probably do the same thing with the new camera.

2) I'd like it to fit comfortably in my pocket. I'd prefer 2 or 3x optical zoom, but if a camera without it is smaller or cheaper, I might take that, too. It really depends on the whole camera.

1) I also use USB to transfer pics between digicam and computer

2) Good answer and CF is the most widely available, versatile and cheapest media.

I have to get back to work (sorry) but if you can buy today I would get it from Dell Home using their automatic 10% off discount with free shipping and get:

Canon PowerShot S230 or SD100.

Minolta DiMAGE S414 4MP for $314 (ask Viper GTS about this loaded digicam but I'm not sure if it's ultra compact or not).

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

1) Do you have any preference to media type?

2) Just how ultra compact do you want it to be? Would you sacrifice optical zoom for a really small digicam?

1) Not particularly, I've always just plugged my old camera into a USB port to get data off it before. It uses compact flash but I've never really needed to even take the card out. I'll probably do the same thing with the new camera.

2) I'd like it to fit comfortably in my pocket. I'd prefer 2 or 3x optical zoom, but if a camera without it is smaller or cheaper, I might take that, too. It really depends on the whole camera.

I just added one of those multi format card readers to my current system, popped it in a 3.5 bay, love it, no messy cables, etc...

 

[Wingznut]

Loved my Canon S200 so much, that I upgraded to an S400 when the right deal came along. Awesome camera.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Loved my Canon S200 so much, that I upgraded to an S400 when the right deal came along. Awesome camera.

I'm gonna wait it out until they come out with one that has higher optical zoom.

Currently an S200 owner I love this little thing

 

[alkemyst]

only draw back to the Canon sd100 for many is it takes smart media instead of compact flash I was told.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Tyler, what's your budget?

I dunno. I've just started looking at these. Somewhere near $300 or so.

1) Do you have any preference to media type?

2) Just how ultra compact do you want it to be? Would you sacrifice optical zoom for a really small digicam?

1) Not particularly, I've always just plugged my old camera into a USB port to get data off it before. It uses compact flash but I've never really needed to even take the card out. I'll probably do the same thing with the new camera.

2) I'd like it to fit comfortably in my pocket. I'd prefer 2 or 3x optical zoom, but if a camera without it is smaller or cheaper, I might take that, too. It really depends on the whole camera.

I just added one of those multi format card readers to my current system, popped it in a 3.5 bay, love it, no messy cables, etc...

I hate removing the media from the digicam to insert into a reader.

USB all the way, I know it drains the battery power but that's what rechargeable NiMH's are for