Digital cameras?

[elamb]

My wife and I are wanting to buy a digital camera, but we don't know the first thing about them. I was wondering if you guys could tell me some things to look for and to stay away from. I have learnt that the megapixels are the main thing with digital cameras. We were looking at an Olympus 2. 1MP. Some information and/or links would really be appreciated.



Thanks,

Eric

 

[me4osu]

I have had an old Olympus D-360L 1. 3 Megapixel camera for three years. I carry it in my computer bag all of the time and run rechargeable AA batteries in it. It gets knocked around a lot, and has not given me one problem yet.

 

[lizzyhermit]

Olympus 730

with a 10x zoom. great camera, simple if you want it to be and wonderful pics. I recently shot some test pic's at Grand Canyon NP from the south rim of Phantom Ranch at the bottom. With the 10x you can easily see the trail between the buildings and the ripples in Bright Angel creek. We online ordered ours from the east coast but locally the prices are coming down to about equal.

Four of us at work now have this camera, and all are very satisfied.

 

[Paychk]

This might help some:



http://cgi.techtv.com/memberservices/newsletters?click=21488&release=2923



Later

 

[Philip]

I have the Sony P71. It is a good camera. I have not had any problems with it. I wish it had a little more zoom on the lens. But for most pic's it is enough. I am spoiled with the 300 MM zoom I have on an older Pentax SLR I have). If you do a search of my name. All the pic's you find were done with this camera.



It also comes with rechargable batterys from the factory. A set of AA's only last about 45 minutes. So that is something to look. Figure in the extra cost if the camera doesn't come with rechargables. It uses 2 batterys also. Some cameras take 4. My first one did. It was good for 30 minutes on 4.



If you do not have a good program for working photos over with. Paint shop Pro and Photo Shop are rated at the top of the pile on photo editors.

 

[Texas Diesel]

I have been through several, Kodak 280 & 290, both junk IMO, a Sony F-505V and my latest is a Sony F-707, I cant say enough good about the Sony 707.



Check the 707 out.

 

[Elite1]

Originally posted by Tejas Deezul

I have been through several, Kodak 280 & 290, both junk IMO, a Sony F-505V and my latest is a Sony F-707, I cant say enough good about the Sony 707.



Check the 707 out.

... here is a link to see what others think of the sonyf707... .



http://bizrate.com/,mpr__cat_id--402,format--,prod_id--6289330,rf--wgg.html

 

[Elite1]

Originally posted by Philip

I have the Sony P71. It is a good camera. I have not had any problems with it. I wish it had a little more zoom on the lens. But for most pic's it is enough. I am spoiled with the 300 MM zoom I have on an older Pentax SLR I have). If you do a search of my name. All the pic's you find were done with this camera.



It also comes with rechargable batterys from the factory. A set of AA's only last about 45 minutes. So that is something to look. Figure in the extra cost if the camera doesn't come with rechargables. It uses 2 batterys also. Some cameras take 4. My first one did. It was good for 30 minutes on 4.



If you do not have a good program for working photos over with. Paint shop Pro and Photo Shop are rated at the top of the pile on photo editors.

I am also shopping for a digital... here is a review on the Sony P71... http://bizrate.com/,mpr__cat_id--402,prod_id--6438400,rf--wgg.html

 

[Elite1]

Originally posted by elamb

My wife and I are wanting to buy a digital camera, but we don't know the first thing about them. I was wondering if you guys could tell me some things to look for and to stay away from. I have learnt that the megapixels are the main thing with digital cameras. We were looking at an Olympus 2. 1MP. Some information and/or links would really be appreciated.



Thanks,

Eric

Here are your Olympus reviews... http://bizrate.com/buy/products__att220050--50-,att259--36747-,cat_id--402,rf--wgg.html

 

[TowPro]

I have a camera with 2. 1mp. It is good for 5"x7", any bigger and and you can start to see its not a photo. I have done some 8x10's but there not as sharp as the 5x7.



The only thing I wish I had added is a optical zoom. The digital zoom does it electronically, Its just like blowing it up with software, you get a closer picture, but you can't make it much bigger without loosing sharpness.



Now for taking pictures for use on a website, 2. 1mp is great!



Mine uses 4-AA batteries. I bought these rayovac rechargeable's (nmh or something like that) they last at least 4X longer then throwaway batteries.

 

[tpuig]

I have an Olympus and love it. In fact, so much that I replaced the camera with the same model after we lost one on vacation. However, my wife wants one and looked at the Canon Powershot A70 yesterday. Small, tons of features, and a decent price. One of her co-workers who is a serious amatuer photomaniac says they're a great camera.

Take a look. Amazon has them for $284.

TP

 

[gitchesum]

I've had my Sony Mavica for about 3 years now. I've beat it around, left it in the truck during the summer months, and who knows what else to it. It's still a great camera.

It uses floppy disks for storage. You can only get 10 high res pictures on one disk but you don't have to have special software to show the pictures on someone elses computer. They do sell Memory sticks that hold much more. However, with floppy disc prices what they are, I'm still using the box of 50 discs I bought almost 2 years ago. I just transfer the pictures to the hard drive and re-format the floppy.





It might not be the absolute best camera out there but it is definately one of the most user friendly.

 

[elamb]

I appreciate the information. Now all we have to do is figure out what we want and need. I know there are alot of choices out there.



Thanks again,

Eric

 

[NETim]

Canon

We bought a Canon A40 last year and we love it. We bought it largely due to what we read here imaging-resource



It appears that they are pretty high on the new Canon A70.



Lots of good info on dig cams in general here. What's important and what's not. Many things to consider.



Tim

 

[elamb]

Well, my wife and I ordered the Olympus D-520 last night.



http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=olyd520



I sure do appreciate all info. everyone gave. I am looking forward to getting the camera and fooling around with it.



Thanks,

Eric

 

[FATCAT]

Cannon S330 Elph

The Cannon Elph series are the smallest ones going and take incredible photos. Lots of features and great reliability.

 

[JIM S.]

http://www.dpreview.com/



this place has great in depth reviews and user feed back and all kinds of info... good site