digital camera

Miss_Cinnabon

looking for a good digital camera, looking to spend up to £300, anniversary pressie for me and dh so can splash out a bit:D

got a fuji one just now but doesnt take great photos, zoom is rubbish on it, would like a camera where i can take some really nice photos of scenery, wildlife etc, bit of a hobby thing really

any ideas?, going shopping tomorrow so must be on the highstreet

thanks

kiwifruit_2

about 4 months ago I bought an Olympus E410 Dslr - I got it for just under £300 -normally worth about £500.......its a beaut camera http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/index~modelcode~OLY-E410-14-42~dept~cameras~subdept~DIGITALSLRCAMERAS~brand~olympus.htm

wallbash

Im very happy with my Panasonic TZ

zoom is rubbish

Just try a TZ and be amazed

meno_2

Just purchased an Olympus SP-570 10mpix and 20x Optical Zoom, been playing with it today, its excellent! and only £229 at www.camerabox.co.uk

The smile shot function amuses my daughter so we are all happy:D

Thats the best price i could find using all the comparison sites on www.pricelocator.co.uk

TiTheRev

Do you want a point and shoot one, or something with a better quality picture and the ability to create different effects etc? Basically, handheld or DSLR?

Some points that may help your decision making...

~ Anything more than 8mpix is useless unless you want to make A2 posters of your pictures so dont be fooled into buying a 10/12mpix one thinking its better.

~ Make sure the zoom is optical rather than digital, as digital zoom just reduces the quality of the picture.

~ Get one with a decent memory card (SanDisk, at least 2GB is plenty).

~ Ask the salesman what lens is in the camera, if he doesnt know then he wont be selling you a camera he knows enough about!

sarah_smurf

Ours were all cheap, but for the one's I've meddled with (so far) kodak has been better so far, but not tried all makes yet and were cheaper than the ones you're after.

I've had 2 Samsung camera's and both haven't been that good for spectacular piccies only just about for basic, depending how tempremental they were at the time on trying to get it to take the pic in the 1st place & were around £100.

An aunt has an olympus one, it's better than them at £150 but not much better than the samsungs we had and was slightly awkward to use.

My bro recently brought a Kodak one though with extra zoom in (something like that?) and it beats the camera's I brought & meddled with (so far) as I like easy / to turn it on and click without having to go through a ton of options 1st, and the easiest to use out the lot and cheapest at just under £100.