Camera is a Nikon Coolpix 800. After about 3 nights of camera review searching this is the best quality to price camera I could find.
The camera came out about a year ago, and has since been updated with the Coolpix 880.
The 800 is a 2.1 mega pixel camera with 2x optical zoom. It comes with an 8mb compact flash memory card. The standard resolution for the pictures it takes is 1600x1200. This translates to you being able to print out photos that are 8x10 in size with no noticeable quality loss.
The 880 differs only by the fact it is a 3.34 mega pixel which means higher resolution, and it has 2.5x opti zoom. The price difference was not worth it to me for the higher res. I paid $345 for the 800, the lowest price I could find on the 880 was $570.
With the limited amount of pictures I have taken so far I must say I'm impressed. I have kept the quality setting to normal and as you can see by the pics above, they look quite nice. I took a few pics with the high quality setting, and they look even better. They are more defined and overall cleaner.
I had to shrink the images from 1600x1200 to 640x480 so they could be viewed on the web easier. I purchased a 128mb memory card for my camera, and with that I can store 128 at the high quality setting, 256 pictures at the normal setting, and 512 at the lowest setting. So that roughly translates to fitting 5 rolls, 10 rolls, and 20 rolls of film depending on what setting, to a memory card the size of a match book. Pretty damn cool I think.
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