My criteria are:

Gotta be the most bang for the buck, ie inexpensive (hopefully under $200, but as much as $250. I want to buy a 256 memstick which is as much as $99, too) but showing a fully (or mostly) red circle in consumer reports rating scheme for picture quality.

Gotta be available locally since I don't have a mailing address.

Gotta be either the sony long memory stick or the small ?xg memory stick. I'm probably not being descriptive enough. I know that Canon has some really nice cameras but they use that big memstick. With my newest DVD player/CD burner/mem stick reader, I can utilize the big memsticks, but that would make it so that I've got 3 different types of memsticks I'm using. What a pain in the ***.

Gotta be able to take vid with sound. What I'm hoping for is somethat just saves mpegs to the memstick so that I can just drap them from the stick onto my hard drive.

Small is good but not necessary. Large is not good (like those big Sony cams that have a slot for a 1.44mb disk).

Manual controls would be nice, too, but not necessary. I don't even think I know enough about photography in order to use them.

I might be able to talk Dan into letting me use his shipping address, but then I'd still have to pay extra shipping costs when I can get pretty good prices here locally.

Leading the pack (but still with unknown quality of features):
Hewlett Packard Photosmart 735
Fuji FinePix 3800
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P52 (the DSC-P32 looks pretty good, too)

If I had to have one shipped, this one looks nice Concord Eye-Q 4060AF

Thanks

 

Kam Shopping Center = the one with Sam's Club in PC?

 

Ah, ok. Thanks.

 

ask BoOm. He is very knowledgeable in this field.

 

ask BoOm. He is very knowledgeable in this field.

 

bump for Bytware (website). That's where i bought my digi-cam. Also, check out dpreview.com for some of the internet's best reviews of digital cameras.

 

I have the DSC-P32. It has all the features you listed in your post. Great camera, high quality and easy to use. That being said, I'd get the P52, as it has a zoom. the P32 only allows zoom with the lower quality pics.

 

I bought the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC33 with 256mb of sd memory.

It's got 9x zoom, optical 3x zoom, 35mm equivalent 35-105, 3.2 Megapix, and a Leica DC lens. All for a little over $300. It was within my 'more than I want to spend, but I really like it' budget.

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Here's a sample pic. It's huge. http://gpatmac.us/files/PICS/P1000004.JPG (1.1mb)

Here's a couple of sample vids (taken while driving Joeys2k's truck.
http://gpatmac.us/files/vids/P1000007.MOV (1.2mb)
http://gpatmac.us/files/vids/P1000008.MOV (1.8mb)

Just playing.

 

Glad you didn't get the Sony P-series...they're pretty bad.


Pat, shoulda asked me, thats my job


The Panasonic ones with the Leica lens are pretty well made I must say.

 

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I didn't realize that. You can bet I would've called.

So I did good?

 

Yeah you picked a good camera to go with at your price range. I thought you knew, haha, I work at the digi-cam dept

 

so what camera's in the <350-400 range are decent/good/best?? Kodak, Fuji, Olympus, Cannon, Pentax, etc??

thanks in advance.