On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:56 pm, Richard Esplin wrote: > My wife and I would like to purchase a digital camera for Christmas. I was > hoping to get your input as to what kind of camera we should buy. Neither > of us are real photography buffs. We just want a camera that we can use to > record family moments and occasional hiking trips. Here's our wish list: > > Under $300 > At least 4 mega-pixel (so that we can print 8X10s) > Easy to use (for us amateurs) > Good in varied lighting conditions > Cheap to maintain (standard batteries, durable, etc) > 3x optical zoom or better > Linux support as a camera and as a webcam > If it could take a minute or so of video and audio, that would be a bonus > > I've done some window shopping, checked the list at gphoto.org, and read > some reviews, but I want to know what experiences you have had. Can I get > all this for my budgeted price? What manufacturers do you recommend? What > models? Thanks in advance, > Richard Esplin
I've been looking to upgrade my digital camera so I've been reading a lot of reviews lately. The two best cameras I've narrowed it to are at the upper end of your price range. The minolta Dimage Z1 can be had for $300 if you shop around and the Fuji S5000 can be found for nearly the same. Both are excellent cameras with 10x optical zoom and good video capability limited only by your card capacity(not internal memory buffer). The best places for reviews are: http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html http://www.shopping.com/xPP-Digital_Cameras http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Digital_cameras/2001-6501_16-0.html?tag=ont-cam ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
