swm seeks small digital camera
i’m thinking about getting a new small digital camera. my current one (a fuji finepix 40i) appears to have given up the ghost, and the quality of pictures from my phone is only so-so. fun for when i’m out and about, but not really so great for pictures i care anything about. on the other hand, there aren’t a whole lot of pictures i care much about — i’m not much of a photo-taking person. i’m just too self-conscious to be running around taking a lot of pictures.
the canon powershot a300 looks like the sort of camera i’d be looking to get. it doesn’t have an optical zoom, but that means it is smaller than the canon powershot a60, which is the comparably-priced model with optical zoom. (another trade-off is that the a300 is a 3.2MP camera, versus the 2.0MP for the a60.)
but if i’m really looking to drop a couple of hundred dollars on something, i could also look into getting one of those new-fangled playstation2 or gamecube things.
or i could buy nothing at all, and save the money for another day. (but i think that may mean the terrorists have won.)
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I used to have a Casio Exilim EX-S2 - it was great. I could leave it in my pocket all day long and it wasn't at all annoying. Light, and small. And it produced pretty good pictures.
I have a Pentax Optimo S and love it, 3mp, some minimal video capability and a little smaller than a tin of Altoids
I got a Pentax Optio S4 a couple of days ago and I'm quite happy with it. It's smaller than a battery for my D1x, the image quality is quite decent and it's relatively responsive.
everyone’s recommending $300 cameras, when i was looking at a $150 one. (and most of them are ultra-compact, which probably explains the price difference.)
I have a cannon IXUS 400 and its really fantastic, very small and 4MP
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I love my Cannon S400. Very small, 4MP, and generally quite good.