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ucfpengbuck
Posts: 4
Nov 30, 2009 8:31am
Need to buy a camera for my wife. Between $100 and $150. I know nothing about cameras,so I'm open to any suggestions. There's a Walmart and Target down the street. Hopefully I can go there.
OneBuckeye
Posts: 5,888
Nov 30, 2009 8:35am
Unless you are a professional photog... which you are not. I don't think you could go wrong with anything these days.... just read reviews on their websites and cnet.com, and pick out the one that has the best reviews for the price you want.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Nov 30, 2009 8:43am
I am a big fan of Canon and Nikon point and shoots. Don't be enamored with megapixels on a point and shoot camera, though. Squeezing in 12MP on that little of a sensor isn't necessarily a good thing. It is unfortunate you can't find many 8MP point and shoots around anymore. I wouldn't go any higher than 10MP.
Something like this would be good, it comes with a free 4GB memory card for $150 (no tax and free shipping on Amazon):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SER49W?ie=UTF8&tag=nethers-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001SER49W">Canon PowerShot SD1200IS 10 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Green)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nethers-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001SER49W" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
Pink version of same camera:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SER49W?ie=UTF8&tag=nethers-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001SER49W">Canon PowerShot SD1200IS 10 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Green)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nethers-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001SER49W" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
Something like this would be good, it comes with a free 4GB memory card for $150 (no tax and free shipping on Amazon):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SER49W?ie=UTF8&tag=nethers-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001SER49W">Canon PowerShot SD1200IS 10 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Green)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nethers-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001SER49W" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
Pink version of same camera:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SER49W?ie=UTF8&tag=nethers-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001SER49W">Canon PowerShot SD1200IS 10 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Green)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nethers-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001SER49W" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Nov 30, 2009 10:22am
we just bought my sister in law a coolpix (nikon) for 99 bucks its 10 MP like jc said, too small of a sensor to really warrant any more than that.