Posted: 6/11/2006 11:01:09 AM EDT
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I am looking at buying a digital camera and I was wondering what sites are good for reviews of various cameras. I know about cnet.com, but I was wondering if there are other sites that people find more helpful. Also, if anyone has any good recommendations in the $150-200 range, suggest away. Thanks. |
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www.newegg.com has user reviews. My review is to get anything that says Canon on it. |
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You have a surprising number of excellent quality camera choices in your price range; especially if you are willing to include models which are about to be "updated". My only recommendation is that you get a camera which is small enough that you will want to carry it with you. You will be amazed at how much you use it. |
+1 they are the Arfcom of digital camera info. Also, depending on what you get, go to www.digitalsecrets.net and buy one of Peter iNova's excellent guides for digital cameras. I've been surfing dpreview since probably 98 or 99 when I was researching my first digicam. I still use it, it's a great camera (Nikon Coolpix 950). |
Agreed. The cameras aren't really good in any measure, but they're OK all around and tough. Our guys take digital pictures of everything we courier so we need tough cameras to survive their abuse. We've used six or seven different brand cameras, and all took better pictures than the Canon's but none of them still work. Some of the Canon A50's and A75's we have are over two years old. There aren't many electronic devices that last that long in the hands of my employees. Just to compare, none of the last set of Dell laptops we bought lasted 90 days.z |
+1 takes standard AA batteries; no proprietary battery park/charger gheyness and also takes regular cheap SD memory chips instead of more Memory Stick/XD pro gheyness. |
I decided on the Canon A620, I actually ordered it from Amazon before I saw this. Everything I read has good things to say about it. |