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BillieTheBot
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I'm looking into buying one.
I don't know anything about them though so need you guys to help me out
My budget (at most) is about £100
Helpppppp meeeeeee
I don't know anything about them though so need you guys to help me out
My budget (at most) is about £100
Helpppppp meeeeeee
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Can't really moan too much about the one that KHSS has suggested for the price.
Get a copy of What Camera and check the buyer's guides.
I agree. You can pay a lot for the lense and sensor in the camera. £100 is the very cheap end. Its like an extra 100 or so will make all the difference between crap and good. By paying a little more you'll get a rechargable battery and better electronics.
Like KHSS says, make sure you buy a good sized memory card, atleast 128mb or better yet 256. I've owned a Fuji, never had a problem. So the camera that was suggested above seems ok for a budget. But remember it doesn't come with a rechargable battery, and its pretty big compared to todays standards.
I understand your point. I was just thinking that batteries are probably going to add more costs.
The camera you suggested will probably come in at about £130 after buying batteries and a memory card. Which is pretty good.
However ... my new camera (that I'm not allowed until my birthday :grump: ) is proving tricky ... it takes CR-V3 batteries, can you get rechargeable ones of these? I'm buggered if I'm spending £4 a time on a battery for it. Also, CR-V3 is the shape of 2 AAs, am I going to kill my camera if I put them in?
If your camera only supports the CR-V3 battery then it may be missing the means to complete the circuit - you'd have to make your own .
Trust YOU to bloody know all about batteries - is there anyhting you can't know about?
As for the camera, I don't know if it's still there, but Tesco had one in a while back for £40.00, reduced from £60.00 ( but I tink it might have gone back up now). It seems to be haunting the place, but its good, I can't remember the specifics til I can nick Chris's off him again - but it's suitable for his graphics course so it can't be crap. As far as I can tell as well (from fiddling) as long as you don't set it on a ridiculously high pixel setting for your photos, the memorys damn good too. Worth checking out
I know nothing about batteries. My last post is pure speculation, based on the images and specifications I could find for a CR-V3 .
I think by the looks of it, that's it. Or at least very similar. But that's a good deal in anycase as far as I can see
But I did what the people here have been sujesting, stretched my budget and went for a Nikon CoolPix S2
Its very nice! I would highly recommend it!
Just thought I'd point out I saqw this one on there too. It's a bit more, but still in your budget. My limited knowledge can't tell you whether it's any good or not though
Just bought that one myself. Does the job nicely :thumb: cant say photos taken in the dark / with flash are excellent unfortunately, but its a point and shoot camera. Cost me £60 off eBay.
100 pounds is the budget now. The point that I was trying to make is that, by saving more, you could invest in a much better product overall.
If all that is wanted is a very basic, automatic, point and shoot camera for party type shots, then I guess any of the ones suggested so far would "do".
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3159&CategoryID=16&SubCategoryID=
I am not just talking because it's nice to point a click either. Having higher megapixels doesn't mean shit about the quality if the camera has got a cheapo lense. All the sony range come with the designer Carl Zeuss lenses, these are professional grade and make excellent pictures. Also the response time is something that I look for on a camera. i.e. on most of those cameras you turn it on and press the button and get like a 3 or 4 second delay to the pic being taken. With the S40 you can go from cold to a pic taken in about 1.8 secs and taken 5 photos in under 7 seconds, another thing I like is to be able to snap snap snap!
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/photography/digital-cameras/331935/prices
£80 on pricerunner, and it's a great camera! I just upgraded to it's big brother the s-600 which again is an awesome camera. The battery life is fantastic, I do use rechargeables but it even came with a set of AA batteries that lasted days!
If you need to get a MEM card for it get a cheap one off ebay or aria :thumb: