Which one?

[Grover-98]

Ok guys i am after a camera i am wanting to spend in the range of around 150-200... I obviously want the best camera for that money but i am not too knowledged on these items so i was wondering if you guys could give me some recommendations with these models in mind...

Digital Cameras (http://www.digitalhome.com.au/Digital_Cameras/Digital_Still_Cameras'sort=Price+Ascending)


Cheers James...:)

[Xavie]

either the canon or sony which are in the hgiher part of your price bracket. they will be a good camera for the money.

I'm sure the panasonic would be fine but the canon or sony would be good. I'm leaning toward the sony though.

[dmdigital]

Panasonic or Canon for P&S cameras. Sony or Nikon would be my 3rd choice.

However in the sub-$200 market it's pretty much of a muchness regardless of brand. In fact the 5 to 8 mega-pixel cameras in mobile phones will equal any of these.

[Chucaro]

For the best quality images under $ 200 I will go for a old Nikon film camera with a 50mm lens.

[Grover-98]

Thanks guys!

I was kind of leaning towrds the Kodak for $188, it appears to have all the goods is a good size and a good looking camera...any word on that model?

[big guy]

I advise to steer clear of Kodak.

Buy Canon or Nikon if you can.
Canon are probably market leaders especially in point and shoot.
Super fast start ups and good lenses.
I worked as a pro for a little while and most were using Nikon.
Back in film days, now Canon seems to be the way.
Who knows, spend a little bid more and you will get extraordinay pics for dollars these days.
Go the Canon

[dmdigital]

Thanks guys!

I was kind of leaning towrds the Kodak for $188, it appears to have all the goods is a good size and a good looking camera...any word on that model?
Avoid Kodak they don't have the greatest of reputations for reliability. For some reason (probably because they are cheap) we use them at work and they are terrible things. We've also had a variety of models and they've all been just as bad and hungry on batteries.

Look at: Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Fuji

[Maggot4x4]

From personal experiance this one

Panasonic DMC-FS3-K BLACK DIGITAL CAMERA - BARGAIN! (http://www.digitalhome.com.au/Digital_Cameras/Panasonic/DMC-FS3-K_BLACK_DIGITAL_CAMERA_-_BARGAIN/22268)

[isuzutoo-eh]

I have a point and shoot sony W55, it has good and bad points.
Batteries just keep on going and going, I could take 400+ photos on one battery and have enough juice to view them all a few times. replacement non-sony batteries are cheap enough and have the same performance.

Sony like to incorporate proprietary bits into their products. This makes them expensive to add to. Mine uses slim SD cards that are $32+ each for 2 gig. The adapter that you MUST use to read the card doesn't fit all standard SD card readers-such as my Aldi $8 one. I have to use a laptop card reader, put them on standard SD and move them to my PC.

But the photos quality is awesome. It constantly amazes me at how well it takes photos, though I do a lot of macro stuff and the autofocus is naturally not as good as a manual focus.

Here is some of my outdoors piccies that came out well:
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp269/Burra2a/Silverton/Silverton_70.jpg
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp269/Burra2a/Silverton/Silverton_173.jpg
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp269/Burra2a/Silverton/Silverton_240.jpg


Overall, I guess I'd say I wouldn't buy sony again due to my hating their proprietary greedy systems. But I'm proud of what I can get it to do and am happy with it otherwise.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. i'm a rank amateur PaS happy snapper.

[Bushie]

I have to use a laptop card reader, put them on standard SD and move them to my PC.




Surely you can just plug into usb, and view it as a mass storage device and then download direct from the camera ??


Martyn

[Grover-98]

Thanks guys!

I think i would like to go with a rechargeable battery! :)

[isuzutoo-eh]

Surely you can just plug into usb, and view it as a mass storage device and then download direct from the camera ??


Martyn

Hi Martyn,
Tried that when I got it, didn't work but can't recall why. And now can't find the cable to try again.
I still don't like non-standard proprietary systems!
Regards,
Mark