Digital Camera Help?!?

Question

I'm looking for a digital camera and i'm not having much luck. I want one with a great zoom thats not too bulky(rather small) ,is fairly inexpensive and of course takes decent quality pictures. Any help would be great. Thanks!!

Answer 1

get somethink black... and leave the little protector on it

Answer 2

Have you seen the commercial for the Nikon thiungy whith Ashton Koothcer?

Try to get that one

Answer 3

Canon PowerShot S5 IS

Answer 4

well i just got a sony cyber shot and it is not the best it keeps turning off on it's own and doesn't seem to ever want to turn on so, don't get the cyber shot. but my mom has a kodak and that works real well, so check out the kodaks.

Answer 5

Well I have an Olympus FE-210... it takes pretty nice pictures and is small, but the video clips have no sound and it is very very slow.... in other words, when you press the button, it waits about five seconds before actually snapping the picture.

Answer 6

I'd go for the 'ricoh r7'. It has 7x optical zoom & 4x digital zoom, so you can zoom into things from far away. Its an 8 mega pixel and has image stabilization.

It also takes video as avi files, so its easier to put copy to dvd, if thats what you want to do. Most small cameras, use quicktime files, that you have to convert to avi, then put to dvd.

All the reviews are good for the ricoh r7, and the ricoh r6 is much the same, just with one or 2 less features, and its cheaper. The price on the site below will have went down by this time, and you'll get good deals on the internet.

Ive been looking into digital cameras for a few months now, and this is the camera i want, mostly for the big zoom, quality pictures, and avi video mode. Also the r7 has spot focus.

Ricoh is a japanese make.

Answer 7

i recently bought a sony camera

they last long and they are always in style

they are thin yet good size and they have excellent and clear zoom try it

also try looking at panasonic GUD LUCK

Answer 8

Canon. That would be my preference. Although it terms of design it may not look the best as compared to Sony or Lumix, but canon cameras capture excellent photos. Photos printed from canon cameras also tend to be more natural and not so digitalised (in my opinion) compared to the others of the same range in the market.

Of course the best camera would still be an SLR. They take beautiful photos.

Answer 9

Try any new cannon model, they are the best.

Answer 10

You are going to find that "great zoom", "decent quality", and "inexpensive" are often at odds with one another.

While I'm an experienced photographer, I went looking earlier this year for a good "pocket" camera with a decent zoom lens. Most of the pocket P&S (point and shoot) cameras offer a 3x or so zoom, which is really not much range in practice. Worse yet, they usually don't give you any wide-angle option.

So I bought the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. Panasonic isn't as well known in still photography as Nikon or Canon, but they're one of the top brands in the world of video (along with Sony and Canon), and they've partnered with Germany's Leica on lenses... Leica is perhaps the most revered lens maker on earth.

Anyway, the DMC-TZ5 is not the smallest P&S, but it's certainly not a clunker. It offers a 10:1 zoom, including a very decent wide-angle range. It has optical image stabilization, which means, it can adjust for your hands shaking on long zoom shots, or in low light. It shoots 9 megapixel stills, which is more than most folks really need (my digital SLR only does 8 megapixel shots). AND this camera also shoots high definition (720p) video clips, with both viewfinder and zoom kept active while shooting video (many P&S cameras with a "video" mode don't allow viewfinder access or zooming). The TZ5 costs around $300 from a reputable store. They also offer the TZ4, which has lower resolution.

As far as what others have said... sure, Canon is a good brand... I own one Canon HDV camcoder, one digital SLR, and a few film cameras. But if you're looking for a long zoom from Canon, you'll be buying a camera that's nearly as large as a digital SLR, or a fairly expensive higher-end "compact" camera such as the G9. Same goes with Nikon.. they have shorter zooms in their small cameras.

In all cases, if you want REALLY small, you'll wind up paying extra, and dropping some feature, or quality.

I also recommend going to a reseller (camera store is best, but you'll find many of these at your local "big box" retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City). There are some things about a camera that just fit the way your brain works, and others that fight it. You should play around and assure you're likely to be happy with whatever camera you pick.