I just really need a good small digital camera that has good battery life, high resolution, is compact, and shows you the picture instantly and can take a standerd SD card. 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 Yes, get a camera with a "real time zoom viewfinder" (the little window you look through to take a picture) and turn off the power robbing LCD screen on the back of the camera.
One good example is a Canon SD700IS. I use it for hours on end without going to my backup battery. Canon SD800IS is a good camera. I bought it and it does all of that. Its 7.2 megapixels too. I have had generally good results with just buying a rechargable battery system...the systems usually come with life ratings too. This rating system is useful for guaging how many photos you will be able to take before a recharge is required.
I am partial to Canon cameras as I have always had good luck with them and they are very smartly built as well as reasonably priced. The canon powershot series is a beautiful series of cameras; the A550 is what my wife has, and she loves it! It is 7.0 mega pixels, which is more than enough, you only need 4.0 mega pixels to be able to print a high quality 8.5" x 11" photo. It also has a 4.0 OPTICAL zoom; optical zoom is much much more superior to digital zoom which is known to degrade photo quality. It has a very fast response time and is all around just great! She picked hers up for $130.00 from Circuit City. Here is a link to Canon's home page, peruse what they have and make your decision about camera model.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/contro...
Then, once you decide on a camera go to Staples website or even a RadioShack website and use the battery selector and get the battery system with the highest numbers for the mAh rating. The mAh rating is the number of milli Amps are stored in the battery, so if you were to discharge the battery from full power down to empty, you would have x,xxx mAmps in one hours time. That is why the higher the mAh the more power the battery has and the more power the battery has, the more photos you can take!
Better get a 1GB memory card to go with that too!! That's a lot of photos! :o)
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Btw, I have four canon cameras and love them all!! My friend just recently purchased a Canon camera and said that he is amazed at how good of a quality the camera is!
Hope this helps! 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 Even though I personally own this 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 - 300 shots per set of rechargeables;
2. Has a 3x optical zoom;
3. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;
4. It's very small and light;
5. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards;
6. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;
7. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;
8. Has tripod mount on bottom of camera;
9. And the price is a mere $119 [sold at Samy's Camera - www.samys.com, and Staples.com; $100 at amazon.com]
Review(s) can be found at www.amazon.com [Query: "Nikon Coolpix L10" along with pictures provided by satisfied purchasers.]
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