What is the best inexpensive digital camera to buy that still takes good pictures?

my suggestion
go to yahoo shopping
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digital camera GUIDE
be sure to check titles on the left side
the guide should answer your questions

In my experience..anything 3.o megapixels and up is a fine choice for picture quality. The enlargements from the 3.0mp are also fine quality.....Samsung,Kodak,Sony make good cameras for a good price

Sony Cyber Shot 7.2 or higher mega-pixels. It's around $250 and it takes fantastic photos.

Good luck!

I seen this one at Micro Center today for $161.00

The best camera for under $200 is the Canon A550

* 7.1 Megapixel
*4X Optical Zoom
* Very good photo quality, noise levels low through ISO 400 (in good light)
* Well built for the price
* Very good performance
* LCD visible in low light
* Some manual controls
* AF-assist lamp, good low light focusing
* Good movie and continuous shooting modes
* Impressive software bundle
* Uses AA batteries; great battery life
* USB 2.0 High Speed support

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fuji film digital cameras are great and very affordable.. you can get the a330 series ,3.2 mega pixels just fine for 4x6 and sometimes 8x10.. a very nice camera for the price . they dont sell them at the retail stores any more since fuji comes out with newer models all the time.. but, you can still get in online for like 50.00!!!! i bought it when it came out for 182.00!!
so try that one out... that camera has 1.5 lcd - takes 2 AA batteries;; trust me that camera is not a battery eater!! it can last up to a week with the same batteries!!

also.. you can try the new sony w - series cameras..-- 2 months ago I bought the sony w100 for a total of 340.00 but with insurance and everything but you can get it for 250.00! sony did very well with that camera that it's almost impossible to find it in stores... but if you search youllf find it at target or walmart... but the new camera w55 is very similar to the w100 but 1 megapixel less. [ it's 7.2 mp] si try it out it has very nice options!!! you can get it for like 220.00 or 199.00

I personally like the Canon Powershot series. They're compact, easy to use, and take excellent pictures even at the lowest quality setting. I bought mine about 3 years ago which is the Powershot A510 which cost $145. Great camera, uses 2AA batteries which seems to last quite a while, and I buy cheap batteries for it and they seem to work fine.

My personal opinion is trying with any of the Powershot line by Canon.

Really pleased with my Sony Cybershot DSC-W30. Cost me about 拢120 and every review I read on it, says what an excellent camera it is. It has 6.0 megapixels.