Camera suggestion

Annes

Hey guys! My parents are buying me a digital camera for my birthday (which was last week, and passed without a birthday thread ). And I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions or could at least point me to your favorite camera review site.

Since I'm not even remotely a professional I'm looking for a pretty simple point-and-shoot type camera that can be had for around $200 or maybe less. Probably just the best thing that can be at for that price.

Thanks for your help.


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BuddyJ

I have to take a crapton of photos for my job, and the other night I ran into a photographer from a rival newspaper. We got to talking about his gear and he mentioned to me that the latest issue of Consumer Reports has a huge camera buyers guide for everything from simple point-and-shoot stuff to semi-pro digital SLRs. While I typically don't advocate CR, it'd be a nice starting place for your research.

BTW: Happy belated birthday! Sorry we missed it.

GrayFox

Happy B-Day.

Anything from nikon or canon is good.

Clutch

http://www.dpreview.com/ is a really good digital camera review site. I'm sure you can find something exactly what you are looking for there.

Happy late birthday btw

edcentric

dpreview is a great tool.
You have to decide how big, physically, you want to go.

We have four in our house. All of them are fairly compact. A couple will actually fit in a shirt pocket. My latest favorite is a Panasonic Lumix because of its 6x optical zoom. My wifes Nikon is way too slow. The Sony is fine, but memory is expensive. The Polaroid has been great. Good pictures, fast, and small.