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Anonymous   07-16-2005 at 10:17:58 PM

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can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 03:16:31 AM
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In article <1121555878.954242.29570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
turkeyjack@dslextreme.com wrote:

> can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.

Any digital camera manufacturer will have at least one model you should
consider buying. Check out http://www.dpreview.com for some ideas.

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 08:06:31 AM
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turkeyjack@dslextreme.com wrote:
> can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.
>
There are dozens of good choices. Any reputable manufacturer -
Canon, Konica Minolta, Nikon, Fujitsu, Pentax, Casio, Kodak and
others produce excellent quality, easy to use cameras at or
below the price you've named.

Typical modern cameras produce 5 megapixel images and have 3:1
zoom ratios. They're good for making prints up to 8x10 that
look very good. If you want to save money 4 mp is also fine.

Your biggest choices are probably:

Zoom length - 5, 8, 10:1 zooms are available in your price range.

Size and weight - small pocketable cameras (but not with big zooms)
are also available.

See http://www.dpreview.com and http://www.steves-digicams.com
for reviews.

Alan

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 03:11:37 AM
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:17:58 -0700, turkeyjack wrote:

> can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.

You don't need to spend that much for your first camera. I suggest you
look at the Fuji Finepix line, particularly the E-series. Fuji makes
very good P&S, that produces nice shots right out of the camera, that is,
no post processing required. I myself like the E500. About $170 US from
B&H Photo.

http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/e [...] owcase.jsp

Also, for reviews and evaluations of most any digital camera:

www.dpreview.com
www.steves-digicams.com


Stefan

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 11:39:14 PM
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In article <1121555878.954242.29570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
turkeyjack@dslextreme.com wrote:

> can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.

Do you want a truly portable ultra-compact jobbie or something with a
bigger lens and perhaps more flexibility?

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Anonymous   07-18-2005 at 03:55:22 AM
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"Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice" - so before we offer any
recommendations, can you tell us all that you'll be wanting to achieve with
a camera?

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 09:12:07 AM
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Shawn Hirn wrote:
> In article <1121555878.954242.29570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> turkeyjack@dslextreme.com wrote:
>
> > can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> > digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.
>
> Any digital camera manufacturer will have at least one model you should
> consider buying. Check out http://www.dpreview.com for some ideas.

Hi. The customary "Check out http://www.dpreview.com" never seemed
helpful to me, and particularly in this instance where it's likely to
cause the OP far more confusion than answers.

Just like those "Plonk!" posts, I do think the "Check out
http://www.dpreview.com" posts are redundant junk to such an annoying
extent.

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 05:20:23 PM
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<turkeyjack@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:1121555878.954242.29570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> can someone suggest a respectable manufacture of beginner - easy to use
> digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 range.

You can get a good digital camera that should be perfectly suitable for your
purposes for a lot less than that. There's no point in your buying a camera
with a lot of advanced features that you don't know how to use and in all
probability will *never* use.

There are undoubtedly many makes and models that would suit you. One that
I'm very familiar with and strongly recommend is the Nikon Coolpix 5900,
which you can buy online for $250 or so. It's an excellent camera, quite
light and compact, has a sharp 3x zoom lens, and comes with a lithium-ion
rechargeable battery and charger. It's very easy to use, but also has some
cool features that you don't need to bother with at first, but can "grow
into" when and as you're ready to explore the camera's capabilities.

N.

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Anonymous   07-17-2005 at 06:23:12 PM
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Turkeyj wrote:
>can someone suggest a respectable >manufacture of beginner - easy to use
>digital cameras, hopefully in the $350-$400 >range.

Pentax's Optio S is a great model. Small enough that you'll carry
it everywhere, take lots of photos to get good at digicam photography,
very reliable, in that price range - and with real capability.

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