Not sure if this is CS or IMHO material, move as needed.
I searched for this and didn’t find anything, which was a bit surprising.
I’m looking for a digital camera. Nothing fancy, mainly for snapshots and random travelling pictures. The ubiquitous point-and-shoot style is what I’m going for, hopefully somewhere in the $300-$400 range.
Let fly with tales of adoration or horror! Or, just what the good deal is. That works too.
I thoroughly recommend the Canon Elph 450. It’s size, picture quality, screen size, ease of use, and all around kick-ass-ed-ness are unparralleled. It takes some pretty legitimate movies too.
And, as an FYI: three fourths of the employees at the camera store in which I got mine also owned one of these, in addition to their fancypants SLRs.
I have been a fan of Canon for many years but my latest camera is from Kodak, it’s a Kodak Easyshare v530. This camera rocks!
If you’re looking for further information, here are a few digital camera review sites that I learned about while researching my camera.
http://www.dpreview.com/ - Digital Photography Review.com
http://www.steves-digicams.com/ - My favorite of these sites
http://www.dcresource.com - Another good resource
Canon PowerShot-A series for me (Current models in your price range: A620/A700). The dealmakers in my case were:
(a) nonproprietary batteries (& memory cards)
(b) available settings from “full-auto-idiot” all the way to manual aperture/speed/virtual ISO
(c) from a company that made its bones in photography .
My A70 has served me very well. Has its shortcomings like everything does, but I’m pleased.
See more on that in this thread.
Also see:
This one from about the same time, and
this thread from December as was this other one and this earlier one.
Also, I strongly encourage checking out the sites linked by ronincyberpunk.
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I thoroughly recommend the Canon Elph 450. It’s size, picture quality, screen size, ease of use, and all around kick-ass-ed-ness are unparralleled. It takes some pretty legitimate movies too.
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Hey, that’s the one I just bought! If you want to save a few bucks and you don’t mind a smaller screen, they have the SD400. I think they just recently released one with wireless connectivity of some sort as well.
We like our Optio- easy to use, good quality and so small it fits in an Altoids tin instead of a camera case! Very good for travel, especially to out-of-the-way and high-crime areas (a camera case is a primary target for snatch & run thieves) and protects the camera from almost anything, including long drops.
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I thoroughly recommend the Canon Elph 450. /QUOTE]Ditto. My girlfriend’s SD450 is cool.
I Sixth the recomendation of going with a Canon. I have a 2 year old S1 that has served me well, and I may buy the S3 later this year.
I don’t think the S2 or S3 would fill your needs. It may be a bit much, and a little costly. But Canon has excelent cameras in every price range.