well...im assuming the way to judge is by price megapixel zoom lens quality battery life and capacity

anysuggestions?

 

Yeah, I have one: use more capital letters, spaces, and punctuation!

 

I Have a Cannon S400... 4mega pixel... compact flash memory... 3x opcial zoom... tiny like pack of sigs... (lil thicker) / long lithium ion battery... 449.99

basicly.. you want to look for more optical zoom.. you dont want to use digital zoom...

atleast 3.2Mega pixles..

there are no xD printers that i know of.. so if you want to do stand alone printing get one with compact flash...

 

oh yeah.. cannon s400 has a glass lens...

sony's DONT unless it is the Sony's with the Carl Ziess lens's... but they arent great quality Ziess lenses...

Nikon are ok.. the 3100 or 4300 are good...

Cannon 71 is a great cam specially for the price..

Olympus are hard to navigate threw menue's...

Kodak are your basic point and shoot digi cam.. cant doo all that much with them... good for non techy folk...

Sony's are great all round cams easy to use just like the cannons....

 

I have the Casio Exilim EX-Z3
3x optical and 4x digital zoom
real tiny like Konverter's it has 3.2 mp
cost $350

 

sweet thanks..ill look into it

 

I've got n Olympus C4000Z and I love it. You can find them real cheap if you can still find them at all, since they are about to get replaced. But, I jsut bought a new 4MP one for my dad for $260 from Best Buy.

 

If you can pop 1K the Canon digital XLR cant be beat. My next camara. In the mean time I really like my pocket mini Sony 3meg with a 128 memory stick. GREAT little guy for under $400.

 

Minolta Dimage XT is not bad as well... considering the price, size, and model. (3.2 megapixels)

 

I have a Canon A70. $300. 3.2 MP, 3x optical (10x digital) zoom. Wonderful camera.

 

I prefer Fuji but that's probably because I'm used to using them

 

thats what it is the A70.. for somereason i thought it was the 71.. hehe

 

Only thing about the A70 is that it hogs batteries like you wouldn't believe. Rechargables are a necessity. I've got some nice Rayovac NiMH batteries with a 1-hour charger, which total was $40. Gets me through a weekend of shooting pretty easily, with the LCD display on at all times.

 

Canon D60

 

sony f717. super fast processing time (take fast simeultaneous photos). excellent quality. insanely good battery life. i think best of all dig cameras

my pics are at home but here is one by another board member using f717.




photo by dsmal

 

I just ordered the Canon PowerShot S400 4MP Digital ELPH for $366.00 plus $26.40 shipping ($392.40).

Here is the cheapest site I could find: http://www.topchoicedigital.com/prod...ngine=dealtime

 

thanks for the replies....right now im using a pentax optio 330gs (my dads)...its not bad at all...but i want to buy my own)

 

I recently bought a Fuji S3000 for $399 at Best Buy.Chose that one because my wife wanted a digi-camera with more zoom (it's 6x optical). I had it for a couple weeks but was not happy with it for a number of reasons. Exchanged it for an Olympus C740, which was $50 more, but has 10x optical zoom. Very happy with this camera.

If powerful zoom is something you are looking for (for example: taking wildlife pictures when you can't get close to your subject) this camera is very nice.

 

I also use a Cannon Powershot S400. Fantastic camera and I really couldn't see needing anything more. I would rather have more wide angle than a high zoom. Think about it, you take more close up pics than far away ones and when you use a lot of zoom, it becomes harder to keep the camera steady. I also like the S400 because I have an underwater housing from Canon that is good to 100ft down and I got it for under $200 on Ebay. I use the camera all the time in the water.

 

S400 has a wide angle lens standard....

its a good lens too... unlike the sony's...

even the sony F717 is a lower quality carl ziess lens...