Yet another digital camera query - sorry!

ih8stress

Help. I'm going bog-eyed searching the forum to find out which digital camera to get!

Basically I'm after a digital camera - 8 megapixel with movie mode, face recognition, li-on rechargable battery, lcd screen, sd card (and maybe xd as well if possible) and all for around £80 - £100.

Is this possible for a good make? And which makes are best?

Would appreciate any guidance please.

Marty_J

The Canon IXUS 80 IS is a cracking little camera.

It's a little bit over your budget, but worth it if you can stretch another £8.

It comes in pink too if you like that sort of thing.

Blacksheep1979

I'd agree there with Marty - stick with proper brands and tbh you're not going to need near 8megapixels unless you're trying to print larger than A3

Darth_Marty

Completely off track Tescos are selling the Canon Eos 1000d for £289.
With my wifes staff discount it was £258.

Lovely.

Blacksheep1979

So pretty much 3x the op's budget and a dslr which I doubt very much is what they're after - yeah that was a worthwhile post...

ormus

amazon are doing the sony cybershot for 59 quid.
cant remember which model though.

Darth_Marty

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

So pretty much 3x the op's budget and a dslr which I doubt very much is what they're after - yeah that was a worthwhile post...

Get a life you pedantic !!!!!!, didnt say I was going off track?

jeez....what a complete !!!! you are

mippy

Darth_Marty wrote: »

Completely off track Tescos are selling the Canon Eos 1000d for £289.
With my wifes staff discount it was £258.

I wouldn't get a DSLR unless you're confident with a camera - I'm going to be upgrading to one after three years/10,000 photographs with a compact!

I use a Canon A710 IS, which I bought two years ago but is an excellent little camera. I chose it for the macro mode (1cm macro - anything more isn't worth it for me) but I'm sure there'll be models now which offer face recognition. The A720 was the upgrade of mine, so do check it out.

mippy

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I'd agree there with Marty - stick with proper brands and tbh you're not going to need near 8megapixels unless you're trying to print larger than A3

Megapixels is really about detail - unless you want to print pictures out on a high resolution or need really really sharp detail, it's not as important. Pretty difficult to get less than 8MP these days though, you should be fine!

Marty_J

The sharpness of a photo has nothing to do with how many megapixels the camera that took it had.

sickparrot

http://www.steves-digicams.com
and
http://www.dpreview.com

have plenty of downloadable sample pictures you can study and compere.