What type of camera

[BigPaul]

Hi all, I'm after buying a digital camera for the first time, I want to spend �150-�200, I will be using it for general use (holiday snaps, family things etc). Does anyone have any recomendations.......Also my PC has a CD rewriter, will I be able to put pictures onto a CD (+/R etc) so i can look at them on a DVD Player............Thanks in advance

[Steffiy]

I have a canon digital camera and it is amazing. Remember that you will probably need to buy a memory card as well (mine cost �50) as the internal memory of some of the cameras only holds about 20 photos. Great website when you do get your camera is truprint - you can store your photos in virtual albums and order prints from there.

Good luck

Stef :)

[Joanne-G]

A little bit higher than your budget but I bought the Sony Cyber-shotDSCW5  after reading the review here:-

 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/70419/sony-cybershot-dscw5.html

I am delighted with it!

[Emily Ball]

Check out the prices at Pixmania.com

[BigPaul]

thanks all, i've been looking at a pentax optio S5i, it has some good reviews.................anybody got one..........paul

[commoner]

Whatever camera you get you will definately be able to save them to CDs and view them on your tele.....I have a Canon PowerShot S50....it's super.

   Enjoy...commoner

[KJN]

When you have decide on which camera to buy and want to go a bit further re showing pics on DVD have a look at ;-

http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/

I have been using this sofware for a while now and am well impressed, shows your pictures on your dvd player with the professional touch and its all so easy to do, background music to your taste plus all different types of fading in and fading out of your pictures. titles etc, its great fun. Enjoy.

[romko]

stay away from unknown brands which often have infoerior lenses. for not much more moeny ytou can usually get a decent machine from a major camera manufacturer.

I got a olympus c-160 (3.2 megapixel, more than enough for standard size snaps))  for 80 notes last year at Klick sale. impressed so far!

[spikeybob]

If You want a cheap camera that gets good reviews check ot the computer active mag iss 188 -28th April to 11th May

For the Medion MD 85099 5 Megapixel Camera on page 29

My Dad bought a camera from the same company a year ago and its very good

[dmsjps]

I've got a Fujifilm FinePix S3000 and the quality of the photos is fantastic - even blown up to A4 size - providing you have it on 'best' quality (there are three settings for quality; lowest is fine for email attachments, etc) and you use good quality photo paper. I got it at a special online price from Comet (�60 cheaper than it was in Argos at the time).

Also, Fujifilm's customer care is second to none. I recently had a new hard drive on my computer and couldn't find the driver for the camera. I downloaded it from their website, but still couldn't get my camera to work so I emailed them. Within 10 minutes I had a reference number and someone assigned to help me with every query. It wasn't quite instantaneous, but near as damn it and they were brilliant. They sorted me out very quickly and everything is now fine. Also, if you prefer doing it over the phone, they give you an option to do that.

As Commoner points out, there will be no problem with printing photos at whatever size you want and/or saving them onto your hard drive, CD media, etc.

Once you get a digital camera you'll never use a conventional one again. They can hold so many more photos on their memory card, plus you don't have to pay for developing and then find out there are only 2 good ones out of the whole bunch!