best digital camera under £150?

[jackvdbuk]

basically looking for a camera for under 180 preferably... was looking at the E900 from Fujji which looks good, im probly a 'noob' with photograghy now.. but want to learn how to adjust the settings and all manually and take quiality photos!

any suggestions??

[BenW]

Is the budget £150 or £180.

I have the canon powershot a620 and IMO its fantastic, bit bigger than some 'compacts' but that brings the price down. Think its been replaced with something a little better now so you might find it within budget with a 1GB card

[Koolpc]

Canon is the best

[jackvdbuk]

well 180 i upped my budget a little, the cannon a600+ range looks good, ill have a look, thanks ben

really its between the Canon A620 or the fuji e900

buti have no idea hwo to choose! any other good camera about??

[IBM]

I haven't seen any reviews on the cameras you mentioned, but if all else being equal, get the camera with the least shutter lag. Having used a fair number of digital compacts, the must infuriating issue by far is having to wait more than a second between taking pics....I've had a couple of Canons, two Sonys and one Fuji, and although the Fuji was the best for colour reproduction, and the Sony for ease of use, it's always been the Canon's for functionality and range of features.

[Honest]

if you shop around you should be able to get the fujitsu f11. the photo quality from this small camera is excellent, it can use high iso levels with little moise so is really good for pictures in the dark

[notsobig]

For that price range I would go for Panasonic personally. I think you can get one with the stabilizer for 130-140.

[jackvdbuk]

if you shop around you should be able to get the fujitsu f11. the photo quality from this small camera is excellent, it can use high iso levels with little moise so is really good for pictures in the dark

well.. it is the same price as the e900, and can go up to twice the iso of the e900... but there is a bad review on amazon for that cam...

i think ill just go for the e900! that 9mpixel amount... just stands out far too much for me

[BigFatCat]

Take a look at here for reviews, always nice to have some reference material.

[BenW]

Megamixels nean nothing, especially when comparing fuji to other brands. Most brands use a square pixel but fuji use a hexagonal pixel which gives them a higher pixel count but doesnt improve the picture quality.

[Honest]

more megapixels can actually make the picture worse.

if the ccd sensor is the same size you get to a point where adding more pixels creates a bigger photo but one with more noise so worse photo quality.

the e900 looks bigger than the f11 (whcih is a compact) so will probably have a bigger ccd and will be able to cope with more pixels

[vicar]

Try www.dpreview.com for more info.

[Daneel]

Fuji F11.