Digital Camera under £350

cmcgeeney

Hi

I'm looking for a good quality digital camera with loads of memory delivered for under £350. Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance


Ciarán

MimiJane

cmcgeeney wrote:

Hi

I'm looking for a good quality digital camera with loads of memory delivered for under £350. Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance


Ciarán

Please bear in mind that I know nothing at all about digital cameras, but my brother is about to purchase the Fugi 810 after hearing rave reviews from a friend of his who's purchased one.

I did an Internet search for him and came up with the following link. After doing a price comparison through Kelkoo, this company are offering one of the best deals :

http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/fuji-finepix-f810-digital-camera-features.htm

P.S. : I've no idea how the memory compares to other digitals.

Hope this helps.

chillipepper_3

fuji s7000 is a very good prosumer model,(just below SLR) close to features on a digital SLR, 6.1 mill pixel, 6x optical 3.2 digital zoom, aperture, speed, manual, program, movie and automatic programs. Choice of point and click or get creative and learn photography.
Easy to use and very very good value. Got mine at xmas and very pleased with.
If i remember rightly it came from https://www.warehouseexpress.com for a little under £290 ( currys or others £350)

dellboy102

'm looking for a good quality digital camera with loads of memory

Most cameras come with about 16 - 32mb, either built in or as a seperate mem card.
you can upgrade the memory to up to at least 512mb by buying seperate memory cards, I would say that would cost about £50 to upgrade to 512 depending on the type you need (which depends on which camera you brought).

Hope this helps

seth

for under £100 get the memory from them or ebuyer who do free shipping.
Buy your card reader from ebuyer not Morgan.
Buy your camera case from Asda £5 to £10

Morgan have some refurbish with full 1 year and some with 6 month warantee these are QVC returns with a full manufactures warantee.

Remember the optics are as important as the sensor so the Konica ones ship with Pentax lenes, at a low price.

It you want a print the Canon i965 is amazing I paid £210 for mine Morgan have some refurb full 1 year canon warantee for £99+VAT

Save on ink buy from selectafont around £75 for a complete set or £45 if they are having a half price week. Their inks are the best.

Refil kits from euroinkjet cheaper than anyone else. If you go for a lesser printer get your ink here too they are ok for cheap printers.

Finally be a photo tart example: I went to my aunt at the week end. Took photos with the kids etc. uploaded 20 to truprint and got free 20 prints paid 90p P&P straight to my aunt !!

hope this helps.

Sheel

I've got the Fuji S7000 too and am very happy with it :cool:

It's actually £309 + £7.95 delivery from Warehouse Express , but it's a bit cheaper at £309.99 delivered at Amazon

Party_Animal

You don't need 6 mill pixels unless you're going to blow them up big. The optical zoom is important though. Make sure you get as much optical ( not digital as you can afford.

EvilMonkey

Watcha CMC,

For £350 you'e got a huge range of camera's to choose from (probably the reason why you're posting here in the first place). I think we need to limit that choice a little by finding out your needs from the camera.

So what kind of pictures are you after? Holiday snaps? Semi serious shots? wildlife? nights out? the list goes on. Give us an idea of the kind of thing you want a camera for and I (or one of the others) should be able to translate that into a specification.

Other things...

How big do you want to be able to print out your pics? (normal pic size, a4, bigger?)

Does it need to be stylish? (nice metalic case etc.)

Do you want to able to take more control (over shutter speed etc.) or will you just leave it on auto?

Is there anything else that you MUST have from the camera?

Once we've gone through that then we're in a good position to start...

E.M.

chillipepper_3

Sheel wrote:

I've got the Fuji S7000 too and am very happy with it :cool:

It's actually £309 + £7.95 delivery from Warehouse Express , but it's a bit cheaper at £309.99 delivered at Amazon

I have seen these on ebay too for around £240 (far east) and also know someone who has successfully bought one this way with no added import tax. But that could be risky. I dug my receipt out from warehouse express and we paid £299 on 6th dec04, they've stuck a tenner on it since then!!

I researched quite a few cameras under £400 and the s7000 was the best value that I could find.

As for memory and accessories ebay is by far the cheapest, i paid recently £10 inc del for 128mb.

cmcgeeney

EM

The camera is for a school. It'll be for talking photos of the school sports events, the school panto etc.

Shutter speed will be on auto all the time and may even be used by the kids on the odd occassion for making posters etc (max size A3, but A4 would be fine)

Hope to use the photos for emailing to the local newspapers and using in glossy books sent out by the school.


Hope that info is of help

Ciarán

EvilMonkey

Ok, well I guess the first thing that leaps out is you'll need one with a reasonable zoom (more than 3x I reckon). I'm thinking of the panto's and sports events, if you want anything more than a shot of the stage I think you need to consider one of the 7-10x zoom camera's. (I'd also strongly recommend you consider room in your budget for a tripod...)

For full A3 size printing you could struggle a little as the standard calculation for that kind of thing means you'd need a 7MP camera.

Much as I hate to fob you off, a good place to start might be this thread where Wendy was after something with a long zoom in a similar price range. There's plenty of tips in the thread and it may help you start to get an idea about whats out there. The Fuji S7000 has a long zoom, but there are others out there.....