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buying a digital camera soon
Sephroth57:
i found the canon powershot for 199 from a non ebay site
http://www.fotoconnection.com/viewitem.php?IndexID=8736&RefTag=froogle
looks good to me! I think i will order tomorrow, need to deposit money
lokki:
Hi,
I own a kodak DC2000 (2mp) older model. Not recommending it since there are newer better things out there now. But I wanted to point out that we bought rechargable batteries (around $19.00 4 batteries + charger, and around $12 for 4 batteries). And use them on the digital camera. They work great (last 60-100 photos) and we usually keep a couople of charged sets with the camera.
Also I disabled the preview mode on the display (view the images on the display before taking the pictures) since this really eats up batteries. Nice feature but it really kills the batteries.
My camera will show the picture you just took for a couple of seconds so you can tell if you want it or not.
DrewKaree:
FWIW, someone else brought up rechargeables, and mentioned the "strength" of them.
If you purchase rechargeable batteries, look at the mAh of them. General purpose batteries are in the 1600-1800 range, which will be useless a lot quicker than something in the 2000-2400 range. The higher the range, the better it is for things like a camera, which used the greater capacity to fire off your flash without draining your batteries as fast.
Using them for other things that don't seem to require as much juice instantly seems to last about the same time.
Examples - Walkman or Portable CD player, batteries seem to last about the same amount of time fully charged.
Cameras or Remote Controlled cars - higher numbers seem to equal longer usage.
Oh, and make sure you can pick up a camera bag that will hold that camera and the charger/spare set of batteries. Much to my wife's chagrin, she forgot to charge the batteries on our trip, and was VERY pissed when we had to pick up a few disposable cameras to take pictures instead of our handy dandy little digital camera!
Sephroth57:
couldnt you have just picked up some duracells instead? =p
yeah so im definately buying that camera for 220$ shipped from that site, im sure i can find compact flash cards cheaper somewhere else though. i want minimum 256MB but if i can find it cheap enough i want a 512MB
Apollo:
I have a Sony W1 and it is awesome, great effects, 5.1MP, 3 X optical zoom. I highly recommend it. Don't know how much it is in the states though.