Digital Camera

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

From our good friend, Cyber Bob.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story...9-378B621449E0

Oh, yeah...inagra...Classic.

[Phenomanul]

That can be done with the most basic picture editing programs... even Windows Paint can do that....

[tlongII]

My personal opinion is that anything over 5 megapixels will give you good enough quality. If you're a pro photog you might want more, but to an amateur I think it would be cost prohibitive.

[ShoogarBear]

@inagra

[Phenomanul]

Since I see that SequSpur is lurking in this thread .... the question is: Can it make you appear taller?

















Sorry, Sequ... I couldn't resist.









You're still cool in my book... even if Kori thinks you can't spell IP.

[MannyIsGod]

Thanks for everyone's advice. I ended up getting this:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Canon_PowerS...?tag=pdtl-list

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

* Optical zoom - at least 4x but look for higher if you can get it. Disregard digital zoom, you'll never use it - or shouldn't. All digital zoom does is crop your photo with a shoddy in-camera cropping algorithm. You can do better with Adobe.

* Look at the memory card type. It's why I'll never buy Sony, their memory sticks are proprietary and cost more than SD, xD, etc.

* Check the battery type. You want to get one that will take AA batteries, so you can use rechargeables. When you get your camera, get an extra set or two of rechargeables so you can have one in the camera, one charging (Google Thomas Distributing - they make great batteries).

* Other than that, it depends on what features you want extra, i.e.:

- Macro capabilities
- Max ISO speeds
- Video recording type - lots of cameras have a built in recorder, some do Quicktime, some do AVI. In my experience the AVIs are much better
- Capability to save settings, that way you don't have to re-program custom settings in every time.

[MannyIsGod]

* Optical zoom - at least 4x but look for higher if you can get it. Disregard digital zoom, you'll never use it - or shouldn't. All digital zoom does is crop your photo with a shoddy in-camera cropping algorithm. You can do better with Adobe.

4x OZ. Wooo

* Look at the memory card type. It's why I'll never buy Sony, their memory sticks are proprietary and cost more than SD, xD, etc.

I got a 1gig SD card. This is good too because my computer has a built in SD reader.

* Check the battery type. You want to get one that will take AA batteries, so you can use rechargeables. When you get your camera, get an extra set or two of rechargeables so you can have one in the camera, one charging (Google Thomas Distributing - they make great batteries).

It takes AA and I have AA rechargeables out the ying yang.

* Other than that, it depends on what features you want extra, i.e.:

- Macro capabilities
- Max ISO speeds
- Video recording type - lots of cameras have a built in recorder, some do Quicktime, some do AVI. In my experience the AVIs are much better
- Capability to save settings, that way you don't have to re-program custom settings in every time.[/QUOTE]This one has great ISO speeds, and I think it has macro capability.

It got the best reviews online in the price range I wanted and the guys at Best Buy and Circuit City both reccomended this one way before the others.

[Slomo]

It's not the camera, it's the person behind it :p

[ShoogarBear]

It's not the camera, it's the person behind it :p

And the person reposting it.

[leemajors]

Thanks for everyone's advice. I ended up getting this:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Canon_PowerS...?tag=pdtl-list

how much did you pay for it?

[MannyIsGod]

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