I am buying my daughter a camera and I want the price range to go from 100-200$. What are some good brandnames out there? She is turning 16 my suggestion
go to yahoo shopping
digital cameras
digital camera GUIDE
be sure to check titles on the left side
the guide should answer your questions Canon, Nikon, Sony, HP, Casio, and others make several nice cameras in that price range.
One word of caution: It's best if she handles each camera to see how she likes the controls, features, and size. I wouldn't presume to make that choice for a 16 year old, much less anyone else! Sony cyber shots Canon is good.
Sony is bad, works first two or three years, but then falls apart. CASIO!!!!! get a casio exilim 7.2 megapixel....its only 200$ at any wal-mart, they have a couple different colors...they are really good cameras....i have one and its effing amazing...if you dont believe me check out my profile, look under pictures. Many, many well known name brands. When you see them, you will recognize them.
The best kind of camera is one that does what you need it to. You don't need to spend a lot of money if you are just taking family snapshots and carry the camera around in your purse.
On the other hand, you could spend too little and be very disappointed with the results.
Questions to ask yourself:
1. Do you plan to shoot mostly indoors? Then you need one with a built in flash.
2. Do you need to shoot a lot of close ups? Then you need one with a macro lens capability.
3. Do you expect to take pictures a good distance away from your subjects? Then you need a good optical zoom capability. (Ignore digital zoom. Useless if you want good results)
4. Do you want simplicity? You need one that does everything automatically.
5. Do you want more control of the image? Then you want one that allows you to manually select the camera's speed and exposure.
6. Do you plan to take a lot of fast action? Then you need one that takes multiple exposures with a single press of the button.
7. Do you plan to make large format prints, such as 8 x 10 or larger? You need, at least 5 megapixel or better.
Ask yourself what else you expect from your camera, find the units that do these things. I'd stick to the name brands, if possible. Read the professional and user reviews and then shop around for the best deal. Even though I personally own this "best buy" ultra compact camera, I would still like to highly recommend the purchase of a Nikon Coolpix L10 for the following reasons:
1. Besides taking well-exposed hi-quality 5 megapixel pictures, it uses a standard set of rechargeable double AA batteries which last a very long time;
2. Has a 3x optical zoom;
3. Takes "continuous" 2 frames per second "action/sports" images;
4. Has macro feature for close-ups of small objects focused under 6 inches;
5. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;
6. It's very small and light;
7. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards - a 2 gig card sells for $19 at samys.com;
8. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;
9. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;
10. Has tripod mount on bottom of camera;
11. And the price is a mere $119 [sold at Samy's Camera - www.samys.com, and Staples.com.]
Review(s) can be found at www.amazon.com [Query: "Nikon Coolpix L10" along with pictures provided by satisfied purchasers.]
Good luck! Canon has always been dependable for me! Canon. I recently purchased a smaller one. The elph model. There $249 I know those are out of your price range, but I love it! There small, an have a huge display screen! Covers the whole backside of the camera! My first Canon camera was a Powershot. I had bought the Elph because it was much smaller in size. I love Canon though! You can't go wrong with them! A lot out my family has Canon. One of my uncles has an Elph also, another uncle has a Powershot, and a aunt has a Powershot. They have never had any complaints. An get this, my display screen once got all scratched up from carrying it in my pocket, cause there soooo small, you can carry them around with you anywhere you go, I sent it in to Canon to see if they could do anything to it, they repaired it for free! No charge what so ever! Hope I could help! : ) Please look at these cameras:
Canon Powershot A550 - $160
Canon Powershot A560 - $170
Fujifilm FinePix F20 - if you need a camera that does especially well in low light http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_...
You will be pleased with the results from any of them.
The Sony DSC-W55 in pink has been very popular and it seems like a decent camera, although I have no experience with it to back up that statement.
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