Simple camera advice please

nigelswift Sep 19, 2006 08:39:35

I'm hoping to buy a new digital camera today so was thinking of going to Currys or similar (I'm impatient so don't want to buy one online unless the difference is horrendous - will it be?)

Also, very simply please, what should I get (for say £100 - £150) that'll give me lots and lots of pixels, lots of pictures at a time, a bit of a zoom and everything done for me?

I want my only involvement to be standing in the right place and being patient enough to wait for the right moment. (I can do all the cropping and adjusting stuff OK on Photosuite III but don't want to mess about with function buttons on the camera.)

Thanks.

CianMcLiam Sep 19, 2006 08:51:38

Replying to nigelswift

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/135359/art/fuji/finepix-s5600-zoom.html

A great setup for the price, Fuji are probably the best at giving super pictures straight from a digital camera and for the size of sensor your looking at (£100-150) I'd suggest staying below 6mp. I'd guess that the price from this store is going to beat the high street price and they are usually very fast for delivery.

whatisthat Sep 19, 2006 08:55:21

Replying to nigelswift

I have a Casio Exilim (EX-Z500) which cost 200 quid from Jessops. As a point and click snapper I find it very good.

A bit of sharpening and saturation on the pics and 'you're good to go'.

Lupus Sep 19, 2006 09:46:58

Replying to nigelswift

Bought a Nikon D50 earlier this summer, and I'm deeply in love!
Check it out:

http://www.bizrate.co.uk/digitalcameras/pid319221231/

Jane Sep 19, 2006 10:11:05

Replying to nigelswift

Nigel - as well as our lovely big fat Nikon D70, Moth and I also carry a tiny but powerful Nikon Coolpix compact digital camera. It takes cracking photos and I can thoroughly recommend it. I recommended one of these to my would-be step-father and he loves it.
Happy camera shopping!
J
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goffik Sep 19, 2006 11:28:55

Replying to nigelswift

I saw a review for a little point-and-shoot camera a couple of weeks ago - got very high marks, and comes with 7.1 megapixels and 7x optical zoom! Shake-reduction, autofocus, blahblahblah... It was around £250.

Sounds fab, but can I remember the name or make? Can I fk!

I'll try to make this post useful by tracking down the name and make and letting you know.

G x

FourWinds Sep 19, 2006 11:36:35

Replying to nigelswift

My wife and daughter both have 200 euro Kodak cameras, which are very good for the money - certainly better than my old Olympus that cost thrice as much!

Littlestone Sep 19, 2006 12:56:33

Replying to nigelswift

Bought a Hewlett Packard 6.2 megapixel for my son's wedding earlier in the year and am pretty happy with both the camera and the software that came with it (also the dock that the camera sits in means there're always two sets of batteries charged up. See now, though, that HP have brought out a big screen version for around the same price. If your eyesight is anything like mine the big screen factor might be worth thinking about.

Sorry to go off at a tangent at this point but the following doesn't really justify a thread of its own. Was in Halfords yesterday and noticed they had the new TomTom One GPS on sale for £199. I asked the young lady for a demo and was pretty impressed (with the GPS that is not the young lady [though she was very nice too] :-) Nice 3D map and several choices of voice; it would certainly do for my driving requirements but wonder if anyone knows how good it would be for locating hard-to-find megaliths. It's portable and no bigger than the palm of your hand.

More info on this new gizmo here -

http://www.tomtom.com/products/features.php?ID=233&Language=1

wideford Sep 19, 2006 17:26:41

Replying to nigelswift

Don't fall for anything over 5 megapixels and if, in the past, you have wished to be closer to various monuments go for a good optical zoom (digital zoom doesn't do owt photo software doesn't do better).