Need a cheap digital camera

d123

neilwoods wrote: »

Surely a camera that takes AA batteries will be better than a dedicated rechargeable battery. if it runs out, need an extra dedicated battery, but if AA, then just pop any AA battery in

No, it's a handicap, normal AA batteries are sucked dry pretty quickly and work out very expensive, rechargeables aren't as efficient as bespoke lithium batteries so need charging far more often.

The only time AA batteries would be better I'd if you were going to spend 6 months in Outer Mongolia without electricity and took hundreds of AA batteries along.

They tend to make the camera bulkier and heavier as well.

Horizon81

Just coming back to this... a lot of the cameras I see have a wide angle lens. What is this? What impact does it have on pictures? I'd be looking to get them made up in time probably at 6x4 or 7x5 by Truprint so does a wide angle lens create images in a different format?

Gloomendoom

A wide angle lens is just that... it takes in more of the scene in front of it. As you zoom in, the angle narrows and you see less of the scene in front of the camera.



More info here...

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2004/12/telephoto_and_w.html

For telephoto, read 'zoom'.