Digital Camera...

[Verne_Frantz]

Screw you, you short person...... What I had yesterday is gone tomorrow. What I had 20 years ago is still here!

[Belair62]

Stick to your Brownie will ya...

[Motion Camaro]

<font color="blue">I use a Nikon 5700 .
It is a great camera with tons of features.
It is 5 megs with 8X zoom &amp; macro, fully adjustable like a 35MM or automatic &amp; has movie mode also.
You should be able to get one of these for around $500.
I got mine from Beach Camera on the web .. quick service &amp; good price.

The pics on here are from this camera ... &amp; this one too:


If that's too high tech, I have one of these for sale ...
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[Rick H]

I use a Kodak Z650. 6.5 Mega pixels. 10x optical zoom with another 5x digital zoom.

The pictures are incredible.

Rick H.

[Pacecarjeff]

Try to get the smallest one you can find.
I just got a Cannon SD400.

My SD330 broke and Cannon sent me this SD400 one for free.
(even after my warentee had run out)

Smaller than a pack of playing cards.
It takes great pictures close up, or far away,
and has a "digital Macro" feature for detailed part numbers.

And it fits right in my pocket. Takes movies too!!
The size is just as important to me as the quality.

I can walk around anywhere and always have it with me.
Has 3 resolution settings for quality.
The best is absoutly amazing, but I have no need for that setting.
The lowest setting takes great pictures, and they send fast by email.
Cost is around $350

[ORIGLS6]

Tom,
Like Bruce said, I have the Fuji S5200 and I love it. Don Stowers has the same camera as Bruce. I have to admit, I had a Fuji 2.1 Megapixel and was somewhat satisfied with it.......... until it died the day after the Gibb Show. I knew SCR9 was looming and I begged Bruce for advice. I had looked at this camera for a while but didn't feel justified in popping for it until the old one died. It has all the features you've asked for and I paid $254 for the camera including a 16MB card. The total cost with an additional 256MB card was still under $300. (I've since picked up another 256 card and a 1GB) I shot over 275 pix at SCR9 and still had plenty of space on the 1GB card, and I shoot EVERYTHING at HiRez.
As JD said, I've enlarged some of the shots from his 3.2MP to 11" x 17" and they're plenty sharp enough to frame and display. (Right JD?) The 5.2/6.0 should give you all the detail you need.
The Fuji S5200 is priced close to the new Canon S3 IS, 6.0MP Rick has, and it appears prices are coming down daily.
All that said, if you can afford a few hundred more...................... go for the Nikon D50 or the Canon Digital Rebel XT. You'll never be sorry if you have MORE than you asked for.

Dennis

[J_D]

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Tom,
Like Bruce said, I have the Fuji S5200 and I love it. Don Stowers has the same camera as Bruce. I have to admit, I had a Fuji 2.1 Megapixel and was somewhat satisfied with it.......... until it died the day after the Gibb Show. I knew SCR9 was looming and I begged Bruce for advice. I had looked at this camera for a while but didn't feel justified in popping for it until the old one died. It has all the features you've asked for and I paid $254 for the camera including a 16MB card. The total cost with an additional 256MB card was still under $300. (I've since picked up another 256 card and a 1GB) I shot over 275 pix at SCR9 and still had plenty of space on the 1GB card, and I shoot EVERYTHING at HiRez.
As JD said, I've enlarged some of the shots from his 3.2MP to 11" x 17" and they're plenty sharp enough to frame and display. (Right JD?) The 5.2/6.0 should give you all the detail you need.
The Fuji S5200 is priced close to the new Canon S3 IS, 6.0MP Rick has, and it appears prices are coming down daily.
All that said, if you can afford a few hundred more...................... go for the Nikon D50 or the Canon Digital Rebel XT. You'll never be sorry if you have MORE than you asked for.

Dennis

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That's right D.C. ! ! ! In fact, just got back the last one you enlarged for me from the frame shop this afternoon. It looks AWESOME in the frame with the Fred Gibb logo and the date in the corner. Your photo editing out the clear columns in the BowTie as well as the straps supporting the BowTie certainly made the end product much more attractive.

Like D.C., I shoot everything at the highest resolution that the camera is capable of just in case I want to "blow something up". If I need to downsize them to put them in a website such as the pictures I posted above, I have software on my computer to downsize them.

Also as D.C. mentioned, I have three or four different sized cards. I have a 256, a 512 and a 1GB card. With the 1GB card I can shoot around 700 photos at high res without swapping out cards ! ! ! !

Rick...........I didn't know that Canon had an S3 IS out now. See how fast things change ! ! ! ! I thought the S2 IS was the step up from my camera.

As someone already suggested, what I am looking at now is a Canon Rebel in either a 10 mega pixel or a 12 mega pixel version so D.C. can blow up my pictures "poster sized".

[J_D]

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JD...AWESOME SHOTS!!!

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Bruce.........thank you..........but trust me............it is the camera and being in the right place at the right time. None of it is reflective on my capabilities as a photographer.

[WILMASBOYL78]

Thanks for the input guys...all those numbers 5.2, 6.0. 1GB.....sounds like somebody is building an engine.....I am going to check some of these out on the internet and then go see a few in person. Hope I don't get "over exposed"

wilma

[DarrenX33]

The great thing about digital cameras is the fact that you can see how well they shoot online. I have used this site for the last 2 cameras I bought. A great resource.. FYI- I like Canon!

www.dpreview.com