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destiny21
I'm looking to spend less than $150, but will go up to $200 if necessary. I'm just looking for the best camera I can get for a low price. Which digital camera would you suggest and why?
Thanks! :)
Answers are great so far! Just a couple more details on what I'm looking for : small, easy to carry, used mostly to take pictures of outings (more people than scenary, but probably that too). Thanks! :)
Answer
Some of our best answerers always recommends the Fujifilm FinePix F20 camera as the best-for-less choice. I have to say that I like the sample images at Steve's site (below). If Morey000 or SpaceCowboy show up after me and make this recommendation, choose them as the best answer, because I'm just passing along their suggestion. I have no personal experience with this camera. I see it at B&H Photo (available through Yahoo! Shopping) for $150; $190 with a 1 GB Sandisk memory card.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/fuji_f20.html
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fuji_finepixf20.asp
My brother has the A540 and my mother-in-law has the A530 - on my recommendation - and neither one has stopped speaking to me yet. Based on this and experience with other Canon Powershot cameras, I am now recommending the A550 as a nice and relatively inexpensive camera.
Canon just introduced the A550, which has more pixels, but offers less user control. I'd be happy with the A540, but the A550 is probably also worth considering, especially since the A540 has been discontinued. I've seen it for $140 in some stores like WalMart and Target.
The A550 costs $160 at B&H and, of course, you'll need a memory card.
A550 review: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/a550.html
Steve's reviews updates the "Best Camera" list periodically:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/best_cameras.html
Consumer Reports from May 2007 has a short article on digital cameras and they recommend 10 different point and shoot cameras in the following order within groups according to camera design:
**COMPACTS**
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 (Overall score 75) [$410]
Kodak EasyShare C875 (Overall score 73) [$165] - Rated better for shutter lag
Nikon Coolpix P4 (Overall score 65)
**SUBCOMPACTS**
Canon Powershot SD500 (Overall score 72)
Casio Exilim EX-Z850 (Overall score 72)
Sony Cybershot DSC-W50 (Overall score 70) [$180] [Similar to W55] - Rated better for shutter lag
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3 (Overall score 69) [$200] [Similar to FX-10, FX-12]
Olympus Stylus 720SW (Overall score 61) [Similar to 770SW - $360] (Waterproof)
**ADVANCED COMPACTS ("Near SLR")**
Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd (Overall score 77) [$300] - Rated better for shutter lag
Fujifilm Finepix E900 (Overall score 73) [$250]
[Things change so quickly in digital cameras that I can not find all of these models listed for sale and it's not even May yet. Prices are from B&H Photo, April 2007.]
Some of our best answerers always recommends the Fujifilm FinePix F20 camera as the best-for-less choice. I have to say that I like the sample images at Steve's site (below). If Morey000 or SpaceCowboy show up after me and make this recommendation, choose them as the best answer, because I'm just passing along their suggestion. I have no personal experience with this camera. I see it at B&H Photo (available through Yahoo! Shopping) for $150; $190 with a 1 GB Sandisk memory card.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/fuji_f20.html
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fuji_finepixf20.asp
My brother has the A540 and my mother-in-law has the A530 - on my recommendation - and neither one has stopped speaking to me yet. Based on this and experience with other Canon Powershot cameras, I am now recommending the A550 as a nice and relatively inexpensive camera.
Canon just introduced the A550, which has more pixels, but offers less user control. I'd be happy with the A540, but the A550 is probably also worth considering, especially since the A540 has been discontinued. I've seen it for $140 in some stores like WalMart and Target.
The A550 costs $160 at B&H and, of course, you'll need a memory card.
A550 review: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/a550.html
Steve's reviews updates the "Best Camera" list periodically:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/best_cameras.html
Consumer Reports from May 2007 has a short article on digital cameras and they recommend 10 different point and shoot cameras in the following order within groups according to camera design:
**COMPACTS**
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 (Overall score 75) [$410]
Kodak EasyShare C875 (Overall score 73) [$165] - Rated better for shutter lag
Nikon Coolpix P4 (Overall score 65)
**SUBCOMPACTS**
Canon Powershot SD500 (Overall score 72)
Casio Exilim EX-Z850 (Overall score 72)
Sony Cybershot DSC-W50 (Overall score 70) [$180] [Similar to W55] - Rated better for shutter lag
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3 (Overall score 69) [$200] [Similar to FX-10, FX-12]
Olympus Stylus 720SW (Overall score 61) [Similar to 770SW - $360] (Waterproof)
**ADVANCED COMPACTS ("Near SLR")**
Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd (Overall score 77) [$300] - Rated better for shutter lag
Fujifilm Finepix E900 (Overall score 73) [$250]
[Things change so quickly in digital cameras that I can not find all of these models listed for sale and it's not even May yet. Prices are from B&H Photo, April 2007.]
What are the really useful things to take to a Music Festival when camping?
Roberto Da
I am soon to attend the V-Festival weekend, I went last year and loved it - but I wondered if there was anything that any of you have taken to a general camping experience and found really useful? (Solar powered phone chargers... etc etc)
Answer
You can get phone chargers that work off AA batteries but they only put a small emergency charge into the phone. All the phone shops sell them.
Maplin do one for £3
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=222899 . . . . .
Take a load of AA batteries and only take kit that uses AA batteries, not funny sizes. Life's easier then.
One of the biggest selling points for cameras etc for me is whether they use AA batteries.
Take an old phone, not your best one. Swop the SIM card and if the phone gets lost you've still got the expensive one at home.
Charge the phone just before you go and keep it switched completely off as much as you can to conserve the battery.
You can sometimes find phone batteries in the £1 basket in BT shops....if you're lucky there will be one to fit your phone. I've got three for my Samsung B2100 for long hiking trips but the phone goes for over a week without charging anyway and it's waterproof and tough....it's an expedition phone.
http://teck.in/samsung-b2100-tough-waterproof-dustproof-shockproof-rugged-mobile-phone.html . . . . . .
For security of all personal stuff a waist-belt fitting bag is ideal. Round the world backpackers use them, and all the locals in some of the more dangerous cities like Maputo and in Much Hadham-under-Gotchaville when the Red Lion closes at night.
They are ideal for festivals for keeping cash, train tickets, phone etc. Put it inside your sleeping bag when you sleep.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090825141758AAMEhQs . . . . .
Very thin seen better days towels are far better for festivals and camping trips than thick ones. They are less bulky to pack, do the job, and then dry out easier. Take a few. They soon get mucky in festival campgrounds.
Also take some old wiping cloths you can chuck out afterwards and some Baby Wet Ones or similar alcohol wipes for freshening up and generally cleaning things and a few rolls of toilet paper, which also makes good wiping cloths for messed up phones etc and drying them after the wet wipe treatment.
Half a dozen plastic carrier bags make good storage to tie old worn clothes into and for rubbish bags for the tent.
Keep tents organised and then they get a bit of space in them. Roll up the sleeping bags when they are not in use to keep them drier, and hang them out when the Sun shines to air them out.
Keep the tent as well ventilated as you can to keep condensation to a minimum.
Some spare tent pegs and a length of washing line to cut up for guy lines are very useful, and a groundsheet from B&Q or Homebase etc makes a good cover for a tent and keeps it more stable in the wind, and gives you total waterproofing. You can peg it down all the way round as extra security for the tent when you are away from it.
Also, if you use one to pitch the tent over you'll have a dry floor.
Dome tents do well in wind because of the shape but are less easy to cover. Tunnel and ridge tents cover easily and tunnel tents have the best space/weight/packed bulk ratio and also have excellent wind performance.
Coleman are great value and Vango are great too but are more expensive. Cheap tents can be covered as above and then they are just as good for festivals as expensive ones when the monsoon rains come.
Tents, and getting the sleeping bag back into the bag it came in....or into another one.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100426095902AADJ1Vz . . . . .
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100626122452AAuJRgA . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100717233932AALJ5Y4 . . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090927054511AA8JzCs . . . . . . .
A flying saucer type of LED lamp will be good for tent lighting and walking around and an LED rear cycle lamp makes a good soft tent light at night.
A small Camping Gaz stove and a couple of cartridges, and a lightweight steel bowl, will get you hot tea and coffee and some soups and stews, fry-ups, whatever. They can be bought for less than£10 and will save more than that just on coffees and egg and bacon baps over a three day festival.
A notebook is always handy and a pencil. Pencils write on damp paper. Ball point pens don't and fibre tip pens can smudge all over the place when the paper is damp so that when you try to read it later it's impossible.
Pencils are the great writing technology of the age. They actually work in tough situations. A true survival tool for safe and reliable recording of valuable infornmation and saves embarrassment later when you need a name or a number and can't decipher it.
Take the least amount of stuff you can get away with. Anything you take is at risk of getting lost or damaged. The less you take the fewer worries you've got and the more you can concentrate on enjoying the festival.
Have a great time.
You can get phone chargers that work off AA batteries but they only put a small emergency charge into the phone. All the phone shops sell them.
Maplin do one for £3
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=222899 . . . . .
Take a load of AA batteries and only take kit that uses AA batteries, not funny sizes. Life's easier then.
One of the biggest selling points for cameras etc for me is whether they use AA batteries.
Take an old phone, not your best one. Swop the SIM card and if the phone gets lost you've still got the expensive one at home.
Charge the phone just before you go and keep it switched completely off as much as you can to conserve the battery.
You can sometimes find phone batteries in the £1 basket in BT shops....if you're lucky there will be one to fit your phone. I've got three for my Samsung B2100 for long hiking trips but the phone goes for over a week without charging anyway and it's waterproof and tough....it's an expedition phone.
http://teck.in/samsung-b2100-tough-waterproof-dustproof-shockproof-rugged-mobile-phone.html . . . . . .
For security of all personal stuff a waist-belt fitting bag is ideal. Round the world backpackers use them, and all the locals in some of the more dangerous cities like Maputo and in Much Hadham-under-Gotchaville when the Red Lion closes at night.
They are ideal for festivals for keeping cash, train tickets, phone etc. Put it inside your sleeping bag when you sleep.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090825141758AAMEhQs . . . . .
Very thin seen better days towels are far better for festivals and camping trips than thick ones. They are less bulky to pack, do the job, and then dry out easier. Take a few. They soon get mucky in festival campgrounds.
Also take some old wiping cloths you can chuck out afterwards and some Baby Wet Ones or similar alcohol wipes for freshening up and generally cleaning things and a few rolls of toilet paper, which also makes good wiping cloths for messed up phones etc and drying them after the wet wipe treatment.
Half a dozen plastic carrier bags make good storage to tie old worn clothes into and for rubbish bags for the tent.
Keep tents organised and then they get a bit of space in them. Roll up the sleeping bags when they are not in use to keep them drier, and hang them out when the Sun shines to air them out.
Keep the tent as well ventilated as you can to keep condensation to a minimum.
Some spare tent pegs and a length of washing line to cut up for guy lines are very useful, and a groundsheet from B&Q or Homebase etc makes a good cover for a tent and keeps it more stable in the wind, and gives you total waterproofing. You can peg it down all the way round as extra security for the tent when you are away from it.
Also, if you use one to pitch the tent over you'll have a dry floor.
Dome tents do well in wind because of the shape but are less easy to cover. Tunnel and ridge tents cover easily and tunnel tents have the best space/weight/packed bulk ratio and also have excellent wind performance.
Coleman are great value and Vango are great too but are more expensive. Cheap tents can be covered as above and then they are just as good for festivals as expensive ones when the monsoon rains come.
Tents, and getting the sleeping bag back into the bag it came in....or into another one.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100426095902AADJ1Vz . . . . .
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100626122452AAuJRgA . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100717233932AALJ5Y4 . . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090927054511AA8JzCs . . . . . . .
A flying saucer type of LED lamp will be good for tent lighting and walking around and an LED rear cycle lamp makes a good soft tent light at night.
A small Camping Gaz stove and a couple of cartridges, and a lightweight steel bowl, will get you hot tea and coffee and some soups and stews, fry-ups, whatever. They can be bought for less than£10 and will save more than that just on coffees and egg and bacon baps over a three day festival.
A notebook is always handy and a pencil. Pencils write on damp paper. Ball point pens don't and fibre tip pens can smudge all over the place when the paper is damp so that when you try to read it later it's impossible.
Pencils are the great writing technology of the age. They actually work in tough situations. A true survival tool for safe and reliable recording of valuable infornmation and saves embarrassment later when you need a name or a number and can't decipher it.
Take the least amount of stuff you can get away with. Anything you take is at risk of getting lost or damaged. The less you take the fewer worries you've got and the more you can concentrate on enjoying the festival.
Have a great time.
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