What digital camera should I buy? Where can I get it?

Best answer will be considered on value of price for quality of picture. Meaning cost and quality are the factors. Design and portability and function also play a part in the choice. Good luck!

I want a cheap but decent digital camera for amateur photography. It should cost no more than $200, and give a site online to buy it.

Well it really depends on your budget and what you plan to use the resulting images for.

If you're looking for an average, small camera for family photos, I would recommend something like the Olympus FE line, or Canon Powershot. They are small handheld cameras that you can easily fit into your pocket, with average megapixels that you can easily get quality 4x6 images or up to 8x10 images on. You can use the camera as just point-and-shoot, or, depending which one you get, you can go a bit deeper and adjust settings on your own. The price range for these is about $200-400, I'd estimate, and they should be available at Best Buy, Circuit City, or any local store that sells a lot of "tech" equipment.

For someone who's somewhat more serious about photography and want to actually be able to control the camera more, there's the Olympus, Nikon and Canon families of digital SLR's. The bodies are usually 6 - 9 megapixels sensors, and often they come with a kit lens. If you want to go higher, you'll likely have to shell out some more money for a better lens. These can be also completely point-and-shoot, but with the higher megapixel ranking, you can make bigger images. Also, the capability to shoot RAW images that you, as a photographer, can edit and tweak, is very useful. These digital SLR cameras are a lot bulkier than the first cameras mentioned, and they often need to be carried in their own cases to protect them and your lenses. Price range, upwards of $1000, not including lenses. Sometimes your local "tech" store would carry these, but if you can't find them, go to a camera store and they should have these digital SLRs as well as the lenses for them.

Hope that helps.

I currently have an Olympus Evolt E300 digital SLR ( 8MP) and have had great experience with it. ( Ebay for around $400-$600) This is a good time to by one the price dropped, they just introduced (in march) their Evolt E330 ($1099 with one lens)....which I am upgrading to. It is the only Digital SLR to have "Live View" technology. It has a seperate CCD sensor that sends the "live" image to a 2.5 inch LCD onthe back so you do not have to look through the view finder (down fall to DSLR's) I shot underwater photos and this will make my life much easier to frame things underwater.
The Canon Powershots are also great as well as digital Canon rebels.
happy shopping!!!

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