AaronD Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Hi, I'm after some advice on buying a digital camera. Does anyone have any preferences on where to buy or what make and model? My price range is probably £100 - £150 and it needs to have a good battery life span. I could stretch to £200 if it was fantastic but the first time i use it will probably be at the glastonbury festival so a decent waterproof (mudproof?) carry case is a must. At the moment i'm looking at getting a Cannon IXUS 40 as a friend has one but i thought i'd ask on here and see if anyone has any suggestions. Cheers Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steev Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 If you want to go up to £200 ish, check out this one. If you want a cheaper one I like the Pentax ones personally, or this Konica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananaman Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Either the Ixus range if you can afford them or the Canon A520 which has better manual controls. http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/a520.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronD Posted May 10, 2005 Author Share Posted May 10, 2005 cheers for the info, the IXUS on ebuyer.com is a lot cheaper than in the high street so i might go fr one of them. The reviews certainly seem alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 See here . I got some good advice in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strix Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 If you are going to use it for events like glastonbury, a model that takes real batteries will probablly be useful I'm the only person I've met witha digital camera who doesn't keep getting a flat battery putting te kybosh on recording a whole event The Cannon A30 I bought is no longer available, but I think it's been superceded by an A75 or A80 Try Jessops website for a good comparison facility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsalleh Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Originally posted by Strix If you are going to use it for events like glastonbury, a model that takes real batteries will probablly be useful I'm the only person I've met witha digital camera who doesn't keep getting a flat battery putting te kybosh on recording a whole event The Cannon A30 I bought is no longer available, but I think it's been superceded by an A75 or A80 Try Jessops website for a good comparison facility. I think Canon are now upto A95,but the A80 is still thought to be the best of the range,it still appears at Comet,the last one I saw was at Parkgate about 3 months ago for £159. If you mean AA batteries I agree,they are easily reachargeable or can be bought almost any where if you are stuck. if you want to get really confused :- http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21767 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cols Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I've recently bought the Canon A95 (was £198 but seen it for £188 now) and it's excellent. The reason I wanted this model was because of the rotating screen. If you're always taking shots of yourself (family / friend shots with you in the picture etc) the screen rotates so you can see what you're taking, rather than taking pictures of your elbow or top of the head etc. Also uses AA batteries which is a bonus as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1024 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 We've reviewed several, canon, nikon, sony, olympus, etc. We really liked the Samsung A and V series. The A5 in perticular takes two standard AA alkaline or rechargeable bateries which lasted for over 100 shots over a period of 7 days on holiday. It was quick to take a picture and provided good pictures even at full zoom (which is 3x optical and 2X digital the A5). You can get it online at a variety of retailers, or at our outlet in hillsborough. Peter Hopton Very PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsalleh Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Originally posted by Pete1024 We've reviewed several, canon, nikon, sony, olympus, etc. I would be very interested to see some of your reviews and methods of comparison, and sample pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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