I wonder if someone can help me out on digital cameras. I need to know which ones have relative good picture quality also in terms of printing. I’ve been told 2 megapixel is more than enough, is this true? I would like to take pictures of landscapes and would appreciate if the pictures would look like as if they are real. Hmm what else, I dunno, would appreciate any further information concering different products and brands. Websites for reference would be handy too. Thanks
I bought myself a camera last year, a nikon 885. Kind of expensiveish though, is about £500 give or take a bit in the UK. I like it though, very nice quality as it does 3.21 megapixels.
2 megapixel is not bad, as a rule the higher the megapixel the better the quality.
HTH
Sadi I would recommend you to visit this site http://www.e-media.at/ and click on Multimedia and then Foto/Video there u’ll find a section about DIGI CAMs and even some tests.
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ukwali,
thanks for the info. 3.21 megapix is not bad.
Ali,
thanks for the link, it was useful, but i need more information. You know where I can compare bw. the products.
Sadi yaar, there are 32 Cams listed with all it's features what else do you want?
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check out zdnet.com reviews. they recently reviewed Digital cameras.
I got an Olympus z510 D - its 2meg and has a 3x zoom plus a 3x digital zoom. The pictures are pretty good.
Check out this site .. http://www.dpreview.com
and these..
http://www.dcresource.com/ http://cameras.about.com http://www.extremetech.com/ http://www.imaging-resource.com/ http://www.pcphotoreview.com/Homecrx.aspx http://www.steves-digicams.com/ http://www.computingreview.com/reviewscrx.aspx http://www.zdnet.com/special/filters/sc/camera/
I've got the Canon Powershot S10 (2.1 Megapixel). I bought it almost 2 years ago and since then it has never caused any problems. The quality of the pictures is great too, but of course it would be better with 3 MPix.
Whatever you decide, I'd recommend to go for a Canon or a Nikon. What I know about Olympus Cameras is, that their picture quality is very good, but the lifetime of the battery is not very long.
Umer, the Pakistani Brain of Austria
If I'll ever buy one then Olympus.
For sure.
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Oops I forgat to thank all of you who provided me with the links & information.
Thanks
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I will check out all of the links in the near future and tell you about my final choice.
Regards!
I've been crazy about research for the best digicam... and visited all the sites Pak_Rocks has listed, found Steves-digicam.com to be the best.
Here's the cam on my top list:
Canon Powershot A40 * My Choice*
Very good picture quality, 2.1 MP, it's got a very good manual mode, you can take a 15 second shot. And less than 300 bucks. Plus unlike others it can use extra filters and lenses, you can even buy an underwater shooting case. The only drawbacks are it stores pics on a CF card and runs on four AA batteries.FujiFilm FinePix 2600
Good 2 MP. It's small, and takes nice pics. Price as low as $205.Nikon Coolpix 885
The best picture and comes with a highly useful macro mode. 3 MP. Costs less than $400.
Note: These are entry-level cameras. Prices are the lowest ones from PriceGrabber.com, exclude shipping. Always buy extra nimH batteries, much better than the alkaline batteries that come with the cameras. Picture quality actually depends on the person taking the picture!
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Ive got a Sony CD mavica dVCfor $900, very happy with it… especially with the little rewritable cd storage device that works on normal cd roms too!
http://www.sonystyle.com/digitalimaging/P_Feature_CD400.shtml
I bought one, last week, by mistake :~)
I went to buy Olympus D-520 Zoom and ended up buying Kodak LS-420. Both are same price $299. Both are 2.1 Megapixles, both are from good reputed companies with excellent lens and both have very good results overall. But here the similarities end.
Olympus has 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom. And it takes regular battery cells. It has a USB Auto-Connect (no software) and improved battery life performance promised by Olympus.
Kodak has only a 3x digital zoom. But the good thing is that it is very compact design, and it has a docking station, which re-charges the battery and imports all the pics into the computer at the same time. So, once you buy this camera, from that point on, it is completely free to operate.
I used to have a basic Agfa digi-cam, but the battery expense is too high. That is true for most digital cameras.
For storage, the Kodak takes either the Secure Digital or the Multi Media Card... I'd spend about 40 bucks more and then I can store 90+ high resolution pics or 300+ low resolution in one go. Battery life is very decent after full charge. I have yet to run out of it, even when we went for full-day picnics and other stuff.
Kodak also makes video output which you can play on your TV or computer, but the quality is crappy. Unless you spend big bucks, never expect the digi-cam to replace your camcorder or vice-verca. :~)
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Kodak also makes video output which you can play on your TV or computer, but the quality is crappy. Unless you spend big bucks, never expect the digi-cam to replace your camcorder or vice-verca. :~)
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The Kodak camera you bought sounds pretty impressive. However my 2year old Canon Powershot S10 does that video thingie too.
Umer, the Pakistani Brain of Austria
Initially I didn’t like it that much, bcz of lack of optical zoom and LCD which can be difficult in dim lights, but the results of this camera are awesome atleast in 2.1 Megapixle range.
Here is the official spec sheet for my camera:
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/digital/easyShare/ls420/ls420.jhtml
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** The Kodak camera you bought sounds pretty impressive. However my 2year old Canon Powershot S10 does that video thingie too.
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Most new Powershot models do provide a video mode. But they are only good for about one minute of recording or less. And one memory card can only store one video file, no matter what the size is.
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SADI if you like I can put up some sample shots of pics taken with the Nikon 885 and give you the link if you want to check out the quality.
Let me know if your interested
this http://www.dpreview.com is very useful, thats what I wanted, thanks
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Umer: your camera is small and compact, seems to have good reviews.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?cameras=canon_s100&method=sidebyside
ukwali, please do I am interested, you can pm me
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Here is one of my first choice, like this one, does anyone have it? how does it look?
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/minoltas404/ http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/minolta/dimage_s304-review/index.html
Saadia, the camera to which your link is showing was not available 2 years ago.
This is the one I have:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?cameras=canon_s10&method=sidebyside
It has been discontinued by now, because there are followups.
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