need your opinions re:digital cameras

[anna_66]

Pat I'm not really sure what I'd suggest but I can tell you about my cameras

I have two Canons:

Canon Powershot S1 IS
This one I got for Christmas (2004). I think we got it on sale for around $350 plus I bought a 1GB card which was an extra $100. I wanted this camera for two things...it takes up to 1 hour of video with the 1GB card and it has a 10x zoom.

and

PowerShot SD 110 Elph
It's great! I got it on sale (last years model) at Sears for $129! I did buy a 128MB card for it.
Honestly it's got everything you'd want (or everything I wanted) and it's small enough to carry every where you go!

I did have an Olympus before both of these and I liked it, I just didn't like that it had hardly any features.


So there you go!
I don't think anyone can tell you what to get as there are quite a few good cameras out there. Go for one with the options you want and at the price you want.
Canons are just my camera of choice.

[Kfamr]

Canon, Canon, Canon!!

I'm currently using the upgrade of Anna's, the Canon PowerShot S2 IS.
I love it. I'll probably never buy a different brand of camera.


All I have is one USB cord. I don't even used any software to load them. All I have to do with Windows XP is plug my camera in and a screen pops up asking you what you'd like to do (upload and some other options)

It's so easy and doesn't take long at all! My camera is quite the battery hog, though - but I also use it everyday.

I just had Robby buy the Canon Powershot A520 and it's very nice as well.

[Glacier]

I shoot with Olympus cameras--all three of them. I have a C-50, a C-5060 and a Stylus 800. The C-50 is pretty much worn out. It still takes great pics, but there's a trick to getting it to work now. It's four years old and without exaggeration I probably took 100, 000 pics with it. It owes me nothing! Stuart carries it now and likes it.

The C-5060 is called a "prosumer" camera. It's just a step below a digital SLR. I love that thing, but it's bulky and hard to carry around. It's a 5.1 megapixel. Amazing macro shots!

I got the Stylus 800 at Christmas. It's pocketsized &weatherproof. It's an 8 megapixel. As the guy at the camera store told me "no one really needs an 8 mp pocket camera, but for the extra 50 bucks what the heck!?". It has loads of settings, takes good pics and works even if it gets wet--a big plus when you drop it the snow! It's also extremely easy to use. If you want something you can just whip out and start shooting, I'd recommend one of the Stylus line.

All of my Olympus cameras came with rechargeable batteries. Last week I took 700 pics on my Stylus before it needed recharging. I use 1GB XD memory cards in all of them.

[G535]

Mine's a Canon PS A520 and it more or less takes great photos for me as I'm not a good photographer. I use a card reader and also got a larger card than the one that came with it, I use Linux so the software was no use to me. Rechargeable batteries are great too.