Best Cheap Camera..??

[VWPowered]

ahh just found a Nikon D40 for 300 euros looks a good camera judging by pics i've just looked at maybe thats the one

 

http://www.leboncoin.fr/vi/59956353.htm?ca=14_s

 

looking on ebay in the uk and france seems to show them around that sort of price

[Richard]

One thing to bear in mind with the D40 is it's a bugger to get secondhand lenses for. The autofocus motor is contained within the lens and lenses for older or higher spec Nikons won't do.Other than that it's a good camera though. Mine will take something like 700 pictures on a charge, even if I'm using one of the £6 Chinese batteries. Forgetting to switch it off for several days at a time doesn't seem to affect the battery life either.Seems a bit dear, mine was only £238 new at Christmas, but DSLRs and associated kit hold their price extremely well and the new prices have risen sharply.

[trigger]

I have a Panasonic DMC-FX30 Lumix camera, It's one of them point and shot jobbys and I'm very impressed with it so far.

 

The pictures are very clear and colourful, It's easy to use and it's compact so it will fit straight in your pocket.

 

 

 

It's also has 7.2 Megapixels, Uses SD card but sadly uses a small square battery pack.

 

I've had quite a few comments from people on flickr asking what my camera is as the photos are very good.

 

 

 

And just playing about with the settings, Never even knew i could do this!

 

 

 

 

I only brought it last year from Sainsburys as it was on a special offer for £79.99 which was a bargain i think.

 

Been thinking about getting a new better camera myself, I like the look of the Panasonic DMC-G1 camera which is £489 at the moment, But it's a lot of money to spent, Especially as I'm not much of a photographer.

[fotorabia]

i personally dont do cheap..so i got a Canon G10. 14.7 megapixies..manual old school settings..28mm lens perfect for cars...i paid $1000 but u can get them cheaper..sorri..thats probs not much help...ohand a ripped copy of Photoshop CS4 is always handy to...

[pogweasel]

LOL cameras. I use a Nikon Coolpix camera. It's got like 3.2mp, which these days is 'rubbish'. I paid £90 for it 6 years ago, and you can get some pretty decent pics out of it, far better than I can get from the 9mp Samsung I got not so long ago, and which resides in the drawer unused....

[Richard]

10Mp on a camera with a tiny lens and sensor is akin to producing posters from a 110 film camera. To post on t'internet you would normally reduce the pictures to 0.7Mp anyway.

[Spottedlaurel]

The little Panasonic I mentioned arrived on Saturday. Seems OK, though some reviews I read weren’t over-impressed with its picture quality. I think that was when it was launched and it was a £170 camera, but for the £99 I paid it seems fine to me.Feels pleasantly substantial and is small enough to chuck in my pocket for a town centre lunchtime spotting wander (which I did today for the first time in ages), so should do the job perfectly. Almost feels liberating, knowing that I can take snaps of things I was previously having to pass by through not having a camera on me all the time.Now to get broadband problems at home sorted so I can upload again (might even open a Flickr account, or at least investigate the one I think I set up but then struggled with). Then sort the dodgy monitor...

[AXrescuer]

Well you guys kind of forced my hand so all this talk of cameras has made me fork out for a new one! I've been so impressed with my son's Fuji S5800 that I've bought an S8000fd! Brilliant so far and the zoom lens is incredible. Best £120 I've spent in quite a while.

 

[Ratdat]

LOL cameras. I use a Nikon Coolpix camera. It's got like 3.2mp, which these days is 'rubbish'. I paid £90 for it 6 years ago, and you can get some pretty decent pics out of it, far better than I can get from the 9mp Samsung I got not so long ago, and which resides in the drawer unused....

I foolishly bought a fancy 8.2mpx Samsung L100 back at the t=start of the year and it's utter shit. It's already been back to be repaired once (zoom lens jammed). It's useless indoors or on anything moving. About 25% of the shots you take are slightly out of focus, You're constantly having to fiddle with the settings on it just to get a useable picture. Utter utter toss I was using a positively vintage Kodak DX4330 from about 2003 that was only about 3.2 mpx and you almost couldn't fail to get a decent pic with it. It got dropped and bounced about in my workshop amongst all the dust and filings and kept on ticking for a probably 5 years. I think I'm just going to but another one of those for a tenner off ebay.