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New Camera Question??
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RottenDawg
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Hey friend. Look for a Cannon digital. You will need manual white balance adjustment but that is pretty common. I suggest a minimum of 6-7 megapixel. That should be about it. You should find something decent in that price range. A large 2.5-3" LCD screen is pretty nice also. Peace...........RDMHHSP said:
Give this link a look, you can compare a bunch of camera's.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sidebyside.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sidebyside.asp
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Around 200-250 will get you an 8-10 megapixel point and shoot with a lot of features. Most will be 2.5-3 inch lcd on the back and varying types of zoom. Image stabilization and anti shake is standard on most of the cameras in your price range. No matter what you buy.... get a cheap tripod for your still shots. The new cameras are so small that it's hard not to shake.
The little cameras have a lot of features but there aren't buttons for them. You have to go to menus to get to certain modes etc. You get used to it and very fast at it so don't judge mostly on the fact that it'll be hard to use the first time you look at it in the store.
Go to best buy or amazons website and read the reviews on the cameras you want.
I checked out everything Canon (the largest camera manufacturer) Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and sony. It takes me 2 months to make a decision to buy anything. Lol..... I've had 5 canons in my life and I chose the Panasonic lumix 10 mp. We love it mostly because its the size of an ipod. We take it everywhere. Put an 8gig sdhc card and we can take thousands of pics. We take 300+ pics a day while on vacation. Our big camera we only took maybe 50. Also the panasonic had the widest lens. Doing a self portrait you can get it 10 inches from your face and it still fills the screen.
It's also records video and to be honest it did a really good job of it for a digital camera. Like 2 hours of video at the high setting.
We chose mostly on camera size, screen size, and shutter lag. We wanted an instantaneous shutter. The nikon was horrible, the canon was really too much packed in a small camera. The olympus were great but a tad slow and we couldn't test the model we wanted.
dpreview and steves digicam website have great reviews too.
Everybody has their own hand size, and style, and features that are important. Most all of the cameras we looked at 40+ had nearly all the same features. Reading the reviews told us how well each manufacturer pulled it off.
I'm rambling.
I like Canon, Panasonic, and Olympus. Nikon needs to catch up with the others on speed and ease of use. I've always hated sony's. Kodaks suck period in my opinion. Too many friends with broken kodaks.
Battery life is important on these cameras because they don't take AA's anymore but really hopped up cell phone li ions. You get about 300 pics on a charge with ours so you kinda need extra batteries if you travel.
Now I'm seriously rambling.
The little cameras have a lot of features but there aren't buttons for them. You have to go to menus to get to certain modes etc. You get used to it and very fast at it so don't judge mostly on the fact that it'll be hard to use the first time you look at it in the store.
Go to best buy or amazons website and read the reviews on the cameras you want.
I checked out everything Canon (the largest camera manufacturer) Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and sony. It takes me 2 months to make a decision to buy anything. Lol..... I've had 5 canons in my life and I chose the Panasonic lumix 10 mp. We love it mostly because its the size of an ipod. We take it everywhere. Put an 8gig sdhc card and we can take thousands of pics. We take 300+ pics a day while on vacation. Our big camera we only took maybe 50. Also the panasonic had the widest lens. Doing a self portrait you can get it 10 inches from your face and it still fills the screen.
It's also records video and to be honest it did a really good job of it for a digital camera. Like 2 hours of video at the high setting.
We chose mostly on camera size, screen size, and shutter lag. We wanted an instantaneous shutter. The nikon was horrible, the canon was really too much packed in a small camera. The olympus were great but a tad slow and we couldn't test the model we wanted.
dpreview and steves digicam website have great reviews too.
Everybody has their own hand size, and style, and features that are important. Most all of the cameras we looked at 40+ had nearly all the same features. Reading the reviews told us how well each manufacturer pulled it off.
I'm rambling.
I like Canon, Panasonic, and Olympus. Nikon needs to catch up with the others on speed and ease of use. I've always hated sony's. Kodaks suck period in my opinion. Too many friends with broken kodaks.
Battery life is important on these cameras because they don't take AA's anymore but really hopped up cell phone li ions. You get about 300 pics on a charge with ours so you kinda need extra batteries if you travel.
Now I'm seriously rambling.
I would recommend a Canon, as those can be hacked (fully reversable) to give alot more and better functions.
http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-y...o-a-supercamera
http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-y...o-a-supercamera
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Great choice...... you wont be sorry.
