Digital Camea With Large Lcd Screen

belfastgal

I am looking to buy a Digital camera for a present.They have never used a digital camera before and not great with teccie stuff.They want a 'compact' one prob 5mp and a lcd screen at the back they can see at least LCD of 2".
thanks.HOPING TO SPEND £100 - £125 MAX.

belfastgal

any ideas for a starter camera ?

intel

Fuji F10 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007Z9ZQI/qid=1137940153/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/026-4373980-5552419 Very big LCD Screen.

Super Camera Too.

bartman

belfastgal wrote:

I am looking to buy a Digital camera for a present.They have never used a digital camera before and not great with teccie stuff.They want a 'compact' one prob 5mp and a lcd screen at the back they can see at least LCD of 2".
thanks.HOPING TO SPEND £100 - £125 MAX.

I would suggest that you don't get too fixed with the idea that more mp necessarily means a better camera. Unless you're going to be enlarging prints to poster size, 4 mp should be plenty. The important thing is to look for a good lens, the greater the optical zoom the better. Avoid the cheapie types currently on offer in supermarkets which offer 6+mp but no optical zoom. Digital zoom is next to useless, you lose definition.
My suggestion would be something like this Panasonic, which has a 2" screen and features such as an image stabilizer which enables a "non-techie" to just point and shoot - which is what your average non-professional user really wants.

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/photography/digital-cameras/328593/prices

belfastgal

i didnt know that i thought more mp meant a clearer pic.its for a 70 year old who dosnt have a computer but wants one anyway....so prob just be taking to tesco to get prints etc.....thanks for your help.he did say he wants s amall camera to fit in his pocket....etc also the bigger LCD SCREEN the better....oh to be old..lol

bartman

belfastgal wrote:

i didnt know that i thought more mp meant a clearer pic.its for a 70 year old who dosnt have a computer but wants one anyway....so prob just be taking to tesco to get prints etc.....thanks for your help.he did say he wants s amall camera to fit in his pocket....etc also the bigger LCD SCREEN the better....oh to be old..lol

If the pictures are not going to be tweaked on a pc, that makes a good optical zoom all the more desirable in my opinion. Also, the "anti camera shake" technology on the Panasonic would probably be very useful (no offence intended!!!)

nej

belfastgal wrote:

I am looking to buy a Digital camera for a present.They have never used a digital camera before and not great with teccie stuff.They want a 'compact' one prob 5mp and a lcd screen at the back they can see at least LCD of 2".
thanks.HOPING TO SPEND £100 - £125 MAX.

Look at a Konica Minolta Dimage X60. 5MP, 2.5" LCD, 3xOptical Zoom and a very small camera as well (certainly pocketable). Fairly cheap as well. I've had it for a while and it's not bad. Not bad image quality and great to take anywhere for fun snaps.

xueta

How about the Kodak Easyshare LS755?
This is compact, has 5.0mp resolution, x3 optical zoom, rechargeable Li-ion battery and a large 2.5" LCD screen. It has pretty good reviews as a beginner's camera. More details of the camera can be seen here (Pixmania)

BUT, try your local PC World store and see if they have any on clearance. I had a nose around whilst picking up a 1p computer mouse and spotted a large sign saying that this was reduced to only £109.99 (I think they were around £300 when they first came out) and they had 2 or 3 boxes on the shelf. HTH.

duncan32

Sorry to jump in on the thread, but I was also thinking about getting a digital for the 1st time.

How about buying 2nd hand? Is this advisable?

Ebay maybe?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Duncan

MimiJane

I've just bought myself a Premier DS-5080 5 meg. digital camera. It's under £50 at Tesco at the moment (over £100 at pixmania.com) and is a great, easy to use compact camera with a large screen that's 2" x 1 1/2". It has a re-chargeable lithium battery, automatic flash, movie mode, self-timer and lots of other features. It's also easy to get to grips with (if I can, anyone can).

It comes with everything required, including a neat little carrying case and wrist strap ... absolute bargain and the pictures aren't at all bad either.

alison6692

I bought a pentax optio s50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Delectronics-uk%26field-keywords%3Dpentax%20optio%20s50%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-2%5Felectronics-uk%5F7348050%5F2/203-1615231-6624769

I love it - easy to use. Films with sound too.

Great buy.

Alison
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