Samsung Digimax A7 - 7MP - £114.99! (merged)

emmsa76

Thought this was a great offer, until I checked on here.
Does anyone know of any other offers on at moment.
I haven't ever had a digital camera yet. But would love one.
Any help appreciated.

smashed

I think you have to research emmsa.
There are a lot of things to decide when picking a camera.

I have copied and pasted a previous post about digital cameras to save me typing it all again...

Buying a digital camera has so many factors to take into account. But more pixels doesnt always mean better.
Its like cars, a 2 litre Honda will perform somewhat different to a 2 litre Daewoo.
You can often get 4 million pixel cameras around £100 when they are on the Quick Grabbit section.(in this case 7MP )
There are 3 types of companies selling digital cameras
1) Big Computer companies with digital expertise.. i,e HP, Sony, Panasonic & Casio.
2) Traditional Camera companies with expertise in photos and lenses (but with less digital knowledge) i.e, Canon, Nikon & Olympus.
3) Small electronics companies with little expertise in either, i.e. lumicron.

Go for the cameras merits.... but pick either a 1 or 2.
Use https://www.steves-digicams.com as a decent source of reviews for all quality cameras.

Also, worth remembering that Fuji will state double the true number of pixels due their unique honeycomb pixellation method. So a 6 million pixel Fuji is really a 3million pixel camera.

You need to look at pro's and cons.

Power:
Is the camera normal battery operated or rechargeable? Lithium ? or just AA ?
Rechargeable will save you money, and will last a lot longer between charges, but AA will allow you to switch if you run out of power when you still want more photos.

Size:
A really small camera makes it easy to carry around, and means that you will be more likely to get more use out of it rather than opting to leave it at home. But on the downside, buttons may be smaller, it may be harder to hold and the LCD screen will also be smaller.

Optical Zoom:
You NEED an optical zoom. A digital zoom is just doing the work that your computer could do at home, but to a poorer standard. You are better off taking the photo without the digital zoom, then just cropping it at home.

Photo speed:
Digital cameras can take up to 20 seconds to boot up, which means you will miss any quick opportunities at a decent shot unless the camera is on already. Some cameras will just take a few seconds. Also, certain cameras can take around 10 seconds to let you take a shot after the last, where as good cameras take a couple.
This may be fine if you are just taking posed photos, but if you want to take shots of animals, or your kids playing.. you dont have much hope.

You need to remember that before cameras went digital, there were still £1000 cameras and £10 cameras. So clearly other components of the camera make a huge difference to quality. The lens for example is crucial. A high quality lens (Sony, Panasonic etc have big brand lens) will give the camera the best chance of a great shot. Slimline cameras tend to have a small lens that fits into the credit card sized camera. The smaller the lens the less light it can receive, and the more it compromises picture quality.

springchicken

emmsa76 wrote:

Thought this was a great offer, until I checked on here.
Does anyone know of any other offers on at moment.
I haven't ever had a digital camera yet. But would love one.
Any help appreciated.

Dont be put off Emmsa.
This is a good buy and a good first camera.
My first digital camera too and Im more than happy with it.

debs626

emmsa76 wrote:

Thought this was a great offer, until I checked on here.
Does anyone know of any other offers on at moment.
I haven't ever had a digital camera yet. But would love one.
Any help appreciated.

This is not a bad camera by anymeans, we are just stating that all singing and all whisteling are not always going to be the best.

My sister has this camera (she got it on the £99 deal) and I have a casio wilh lesser pixels. On comparison mine takes a better picture and video. Thats not to say its not as good as, or the casio is a better camera, I think it has to do with the settinggs I used. My sister is a point and shoot person, I like to fiddle with the settings to get the best picture possible.

Buying the camera just because it has 7 mil pixels is not wise, there are lesser pixel cameras out there that are just as good or better for the price.

Do some reasearch to help you decide

emmsa76

Thanks for all your posts.
Decisions, Decisions!!!

aj2001

Its a decent camera The flash doesnt take too much time to recharge where as on my cannon a520 it takes 10+ secods.

Build quality is also great and manual setting also if needed samsung are doing a good job at the moment with quality and design they are with the top players.

brad

Can’t see this posted. Looks like a good deal, but would dubious about the lenses even it says it is high definition. I don't see Samsung having a reputation for them!
The link at Argos: http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?rcptid=4357F5x78BD08A3&storeId=10001&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fwebapp%2Fwcs%2Fstores%2Fservlet%2FProductDisplay%3FstoreId%3D10001%26langId%3D-1%26partNumber%3D5604250&referrer=AR171&partNumber=5604250&params=AR171&langId=-1

Roger_Rampant

I wonder if this will be moved to the Argos sub-board

I certainly wouldn't pay £330 for this camera, I would be interested to know whether anyone really bought it at that price?