What would you recommend? (Sony Kodak Fujitsu Siemens Sanyo HP etc???) canon
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 i would look at the megapixles batterylife number of pictures it holds it depends on how much you are willing to spend.
Try here:
http://shopping.comcast.net/search_attri...
you can narrow your search by price, brand, mega-pixels, zoom, etc. And then compare the ones you like. Well first off you need one in your budget. Second you want the highest megapixel rating possible [say 7.1 to 10.1]. You also want good battery life. Also if you travel a lot, you might want to consider an Ultracompact like the Exilim Zoom EXZ10-50 by Casio. If you like to take closeups I reccomend the Nikon D40x There are four main things you need to look for in buying a digital camera:
1 - Budget. It won't do you any good to look at the Nikon D2 if you're looking to spend $179. (The D2 costs about four thousand dollars...) Likewise, if you're looking to spend between $800 and $1000, you can overlook a lot of the inexpensive "point and shoot" cameras and go for something with a little more power and flexibility, like a Canon EOS or a Nikon D40x.
2 - Megapixels. Basically, a megapixel is roughly one million pixels -- the dots out of which your image is constructed. Simply put, more is better. Why? The more dots used to construct your image, the more detail it will have. So once you've identified how much you want to spend, getting the camera with more megapixels will give your images more detail, more depth, and more clarity, especially if you want to crop them (cut out a section of the image).
3 - Optics. How good is the lens? If you get a camera with a crummy lens, it won't matter how many megapixels it has; this is called "cutting bad meat into smaller pieces." Take some photos in the camera store and look at the detail. Blow them up if it's at all possible. Does it have a zoom feature, and is that optical or digital? Optical zoom means the lens moves, while digital zoom just copies the pixels -- so if you've got crummy optics, you've taken bad meat, cut it into smaller pieces, and made meatballs out of it. :-) Also, some digital cameras have removable lenses, so you can buy one with different characteristics (such as a telephoto or a wide-angle) if you find yourself doing a kind of photography that would benefit from a specialized lens. For example, if you're a really avid birdwatcher, a long lens (300mm or more) is essential because most birds won't let you get too close.
4 - Shutter response. Most inexpensive point-and-shoot digital cameras have a lag time between pushing the button and taking the image. This is a HUGE annoyance to anyone raised on "real' cameras (old-school film cameras with fast mechanical shutters). My cameraphone, for example, has a pretty serious lag time between pressing the button and getting the shot, so much so that if I take a picture of a moving car, it's out of the frame by the time the camera clicks. If you mainly take pictures of people standing by a monument or of trees and flowers, you can take fine pictures even with a lot of shutter lag, but if you want to take pictures of your daughter playing soccer or of race cars or other fast-moving action shots, shutter lag is a killer.
If I had to add anything else, I'd say make sure it's easy to get the pictures out of the camera and onto your computer, printer, or other external device. My cameraphone rocks in that regard, because I can email them to myself. :-) However, my Nikon isn't difficult either -- just hook up a cable, turn on the camera, and drag-and-drop images from one folder to another.
But if you solve for those four things, you should be able to pick a camera you'll be happy with, and which will make pictures you will be proud to show your friends and family. Even though I currently own this ultracompact digital 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. 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 $99 [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.]
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