£150 Digital Camera

[nvening]

My sis has a limit of £150 for a new digital camera for her art degree. She needs to print big pictures (Up to A3 sometimes) i am thinking this may not be possible for the price but ill see what you say. She says that the Sony P200 (my fav) is too much money, unless you guys can give me some ammo to persuade her.

[hoodmeister]

Finepix 3500?

[toolsong]

CASIO EX-Z120 7.2mp
http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/821545

[nvening]

Its tricky cause

a) i wont order grey market products from piximania

b) Casio, er, they make calculators and also all cameras for this money use aa batterys and so i would need a charger and batterys (say £20) and its not going to be as good as the sony, so mabe the sony is the better value?

[divinemadness]

I think Casio use Sony sensors anyway

[MSIC]

Do you NEED a digital camera?
If she's doing an art degree and on a limited budget, perhaps she may be better going with an olde-worlde film SLR, maybe a refurbished one with a nice lense?

A digital SLR would meet her needs nicely, except you'd be paying minimum £450....!

For what it's worth, a quick look around brought up this 6 mega-pixel camera.
6 MP should be enough for A3 size, providing that the lense itself is ok.

[menthel]

Show her some of shiato storm's piccies! Most of his are from a p200.

[ikonia]

I've seen the cannon Ixus 40 and even 50 sometimes for sale at about £150 - you'd have to shop around.

These seem to be an excellent value camera, however I'm no professional photographer by a million miles.

[hitman67]

I'd say this one personally (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=87208) A touch over budget but a very very good camera with an amazing zoom.

[Stompy]

I'd say this one personally (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=87208) A touch over budget but a very very good camera with an amazing zoom.

Interestingly that is almost exactly the same as the Fuji S3500 (I have the Fuji and my uncle has the kodak), looks like fuji build them for kodak or the other way round. It is slightly higher specced though, at 5mp vs 4 and 10x optical vs 6x, but I got my Fuji for £99.99 at dixons, brilliant camera for that price.

[5lab]

ebuyer used to have the canon IS-S1 camera.. as she's doing an art course, i recon she might like some of the stuff that the IS range can do (over a normal digicam) - things like manual focus, and dof stuff..

[Spud1]

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...er/5600917.htm

150quid, finepix F610 - cracking little camera for that price, my friend has one and i'm going to argos today to pick one up My parents got me an A345 for christmas but it had pixel problems on the ccd (one pixel always black, on the lcd and on printed pics, easy to fix i know but i wanted a working camera ffs). Took it back last week and got a new one (argos swapped it, my parents had used piximania grr) and now this one worked for 5 mins, then turned itself off and won't turn on again

grrrrr

still going to take it back and upgrade to that 610 today should fit my needs as much as your sisters.