Which digital camera would be best for a first time buyer?

Question

Which digital camera would be best for a first time buyer?

Answer 1

sony cyber shot not sure bout the price great sound and pics. comes in black big screen

Answer 2

Ah, I love Friday nights, when the volume of answers goes up, and the quality of answers goes way down!



Your arbitrary requirement that the camera must be black takes a lot of good quality cameras out of your hands, and puts a lot of fashion oriented cameras in their place. Not a wise move, in my opinion.



I've disregarded this requirement, and would recommend to you the Canon A720. For less than $200, it'll give you an 8 megapixel sensor, a 2.5" display, and excellent picture quality from a camera in this class. You can't have everything.



With this, you'll still have enough money left over for a set of AA NiMH rechargable batteries and a 15-minute charger, a 2 GB memory card, and a camera bag.



What's not to love?



Check the camera out here:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona720is/

Answer 3

The sony cybershot is nice i just got it

but its silver its pretty tight =]

its 180 or 150 on sales

good luck.

Answer 4

MP stands for megapixels, or tens of millions of pixels. you do no longer elect too many, by using fact on a compact digital camera, the sensor is a lot smaller than on DSLRs. by using this the photodiodes- nicely, in short, you have so lots greater noise (the grotesque, colored speckles around the image) at medium ISOs and severe ISOs. objective for the 8-10 megapixel selection. Canon, Nikon, Panasonic/Lumix and Sony lead the compact cameras. i could stay away from Olympus compacts, as they use proprietary taking part in cards, that fee so lots greater desirable than extensive-unfold SD taking part in cards.

Answer 5

As a first time buyer, I am going to assume you want something user friendly and that you dont have to spend a lot of time reading the manual. Kodak EasyShare is known as one of the most user friendly cameras. You did not mention anything about zoom, now with the price range you mentioned you are only going to find a point and shoot digital camera, so zoom is very important. You want to make sure it has quite a bit of OPTICAL zoom, digital zoom is not that important. Optical zoom is like zooming with an slr camera, digital zoom is like zooming in on a picture on your computer. The Z1285 meets every requirement you desire plus it has 5x optical zoom and it surpasses your MP desire. Now if you are willing to pay about $30 more there is the Z712 IS it is a 7.1MP and has 12x optical zoom. Here are links to both for you to look at.



Z1285 http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=12442





Z712 IS http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=10689

Answer 6

I just bought a Panasonic DMC-LZ7 for $130.00 with 6x optical zoom, a 2.5" screen, 7.2 MP, and it comes in black (though I prefer silver). I LOVE IT and it was the best price I found. It got good reviews. I've already had two other Panasonic Lumix cameras and they've been really reliable (I just needed one that takes AA batteries for traveling to remote locations where there is no charger.)



P.S. - I bought it on amazon.com because they had a really competitve price, but I went to Best Buy to test it first. I also tested a few Canons and the time between shots was so slow that I wouldn't buy one even if they do have better screen resolution.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Several friends and family members of mine have a Kodak EasyShare. They are simple to use and produce good pictures. If I hadn't been given a camera as a gift, that is what I would probably go with. And Canons are always good.

Answer 9

power shot canon, i bought it works great trust me

Answer 10

sony cybershot DSC-W55.



fits all of your critera & is easy to use for first-time users.

Answer 11

Buy a Panasonic for about $75 and upgrade the memory (SD) card for about $25. Then you will have a nice little camera to learn from. You'll have to get used to photo software & everything, so you want a "starter" setup to begin. Don't spend too much money!



Good luck with your new hobby :-)

Answer 12

there was a camera from casio called the exclim, or something like that.....its the worlds slimmest camera, has a 2.5 in screen, and it comes in black , it does have good picture quality...cause i read the reviews from the people that bought it ....and also i think it was about $ 250...you can search it on yahoo.....i'm 13 too!

Answer 13

Take a look at the line of Cannon Digital camerals at walmart. They have a nice one with 8.4 Megapixels for under $200.00.

Answer 14

canon makes the best cameras out there, for very good prices. easy to use, awesome picture quality, etc.



i would recommend checking their website for ideas, and then browsing all of the big stores for comparison prices. you could also research certain models on cnet.com ... they're a reputable site.

Answer 15

Well, you are asking for alot there, so there wouldn't be much choice. Maybe buy a phone. The more exspensive, the better quality, screen, mp. The colour doesn't really matter.

Answer 16

ohh i got the match



a canon power shot camera with retractable lenses or a sony slim cam.

Answer 17

Personally 4get digitasl cameras & go 4 something biger like 4 example a video/digital camera I have 1 and it works awesome bcause i have video and camera.

Answer 18

go 2 Best Buy or Circut City

Answer 19

i got a kodak camera with a printer and its black

It only cost 150 dollars and its really good

Answer 20

I've had good luck with the Canon SD series ... try looking at them.

Answer 21

try the samsung brand, cheap but good quality cameras.

Answer 22

the sony cybershot DSC W55 black





i LOVE it

it's amazing. and good for a first time buyer.

Answer 23

Fuji 8.2 megapixel

Answer 24

canons are by far the best.. i love this camera here..

Answer 25

anything canon would be good



but try this....

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8278393&type=product&id=1171058629477



that has everything you want, but its $10 more than you wanted

Answer 26

the ones on ebay

Answer 27

KODAK EASYSHARE... IT WORKS WICKED GOOD... I HAVE IT AND ITS MY FIRST AND IT WORKS EXCELLENT

Answer 28

go for SONY digicameras.

Answer 29

i dunno hun sorry