Please enlighten me regarding your knowledge of good digital/video cameras and where to buy one.?

Thank you:)

As far as digital still cameras, 5 megapixels is the minimum I would suggest. Any less, and your picure quality suffers. Get a camera with as much OPTICAL zoom as possible. Digital zoom is a waste because the more you zoom digitally, the more grainy your pictures become. Make sure you know what memory card the camera takes, and make sure you know whether your camera has any internal memory. Not all of them do, which means you will have to buy a memory card. Cameras that do have internal memory don't have much, so a memory card isn't a bad idea. Think of a memory card as "film". The more you have, the more pictures you can take. Make sure you know what kind of batteries the cameras take. Sometimes they have a special rechargeable battery that only works with that camera and must be recharged with a special charger, sometimes they take regular aa or aaa batteries. This is important if you are taking a lot of pictures and you won't have access to the charger. You can keep extra batteries and memory cards with you. Do as much research as you can on-line. Your average store employee doesn't know that much about the cameras, especially like Best Buy and Circuit City, and even if they do they are always going to sell you more than you need. It's their job to separate you from your money. Look at all the features of the cameras, including all the different settings. Some have optical viewfinders like old film cameras, some have electronic ones. Optical is easier to see. Some cameras are so small they're hard to hold and operate, some are so big that they are bulky and heavy. I bought a Kodak Easy Share Z730 last December. I really like it. I got it at Office max. You absolutely must shop for price, and on-line is where I found the best price, because I got mine for $199, but all the big stores like Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target, etc, were about 50 bucks higher. From personal experience buying everything from cameras to a Honda odyssey, the only reason you need to go to a store is so you can give the clerk money for your purchase, nothing more. I do not recommend extended warranties, either. You already have the warranty from the manufacturer. You can get a very good digital camera for 200 bucks that takes as good or better pictures than any film camera you have, and every year the cameras get better and cheaper.

Depending on how much you want to spend, Besy Buy has a good selection. I have a Canon ZR70. It's a few years old, but it's still a good camera.

A good place to buy cameras is at places like wolf camera where theyre profetionals at that, or try good guys, best buy, fry's, but dont go for like wal mart or target or none of thos stores because they dont know a lot about that subject

best buy or circuit city but probaly best buy

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the red kodak easyshare one V550(8055972) they sell at target is a good one and so is the cheaper silver kodak easyshare one(C330).

I sell electronics at Sears and they offer good electronics, they will do price matching with competitors and they also offer protection agreements to extend the life of your camera. A great and reasonably priced digital still camera is the Kodak easy share system. Sony cybershot cameras are great too. As for camcorders Sony handy cams are great for digital video. JVC just made a HD camcorder that requires no media! A little pricy though yet it's still very new technology.

Try a discount electronics store or office supply store with a good selection of electronic equipment.

I assume that you would want models that you can interface to your computer so you can upload your photos/video.

For camcorders - get a mini-DV camcorder. Get one with a fast interface: preferably IEEE-1394 or "FireWire". Sony has another name for it, "iLink" or something like that I think.

The nice thing about the DV format is that it is a digital video (DV) format. If you are going to do any editing or have the video touch your computer, DVDs, or the web any at all - this is the format you want to have your camcorder support.
Macs come with fantastic support for mini-DV camcorders and digital cameras.

There is a widescreen HD (high def.) version of mini-DV out now but it tends to run about a thousand bucks or more. You can get the regular screen size mini-DV cams far cheaper - well, under $500 if you shop around.

DV camborders tend to come with the ability to shoot digital photos. The mini-DV models are very small. You may not need/want a digital camera that only shoots photos once you bring your mini-DV camcorder home. Do not rush to by the digital camera first, reasoning that it is a forgone conclusion that you will need one in addition to your new camcorder.

I have had good luck with Canon cameras, camcorders, and printers. Epson makes great printers too but I have never tried their cameras. HP makes really cheap cameras but I heard they used cheap plastic lenses in them. I have not been happy with HP printers either, at least not with the software/drivers.

Before you buy a lot of expensive hardware and software to prop up an ailng, aged PC - consider simply buying a Mac mini. It comes prebuilt to handle the requirements of digital video/photos cataloging/editing/uploading and CD/DVD burning.

If you have a USB mouse and USB keyboard already, you can use those with your Mac Mini. You can also use it with a monitor that has a DVI or VGA interface; which is pretty much any monitor these days.

you go to a few different pawn shops and see what they have....write down the model numbers of the ones you like the looks of....go home and look them up on eBay.....whichever one sells for the most on eBay is usually the best!

dude,
there are three types of digital cameras,
1. normal cameras,
2. semi- SLR's
3. SLR's

normal people for domestic purposes use normal cameras, these cameras will come with less optical zoom and good digital zoom and these cameras will come up to 7 mega pixel.

people who are some what interested in taking some cool photos take "semi- SLR's" these cameras will have decent optical zoom and good digital zoom and will come up to almost 5 mega pixel.

people who are said as professional photographer's or some one like who want to capture objects which are very very far away from them, we can say these people as photography freaks, use these kind of cameras. these will come up with excellent optical zoom and digital zoom, and will come up to 13 mega pixel.

remember the more optical zoom, the farthest image can be captured,
and sorry to say you that, you'll not get a slim piece in semi-SLR's and SLR's, and if you take a normal camera- still you can take sharp pictures but you ca not take sharp pictures of the distant objects.

and when it comes to the mega pixel issues, for domestic purpose 3.2 to 4 megapixel is more than enough, using which you can take a print out of A4 size paper.
the more mega-pixel you use, the bigger print you get, not more than that.
when it comes to bying, any dealership is a good place and you can try EBAY also.

i use a Kodak SLR. its awesome
hope I'm useful to you.
all the best.