Buying a digital camera

[Tony Balony]

I am trying to negotiate the Digital Camera market and have finally decided on a Canon Powershot A95. With the camera I need a bigger storage card (maybe 512mb). I also need 8 rechargeable NiMH AA batteries with a charger. My questions are

1. Will the charger be compatible abroad?

2. What make of battery, charger and card should I get? I dont want to spend too much but by the same token I dont want to buy rubbish.

[stevie21]

I'd have thought that the charger would come with the camera & would work abroad with the correct adaptor. Any brand of card would be fine as long as it's the correct format. CompactFlash is the most popular but there are others. If these turn out to be expensive I'd get one from ebay.
Also, if your camera doesn't already have an easy way of connecting to your PC to transfer the pictures I'd use one of these
"HotCard Reader (and writer)" 8th one down at
http://tinyurl.com/4ec6m
My camera saves files as .cam files and Irfanview (free download) can read them, rename them & save them to your PC as jpegs.

[chinadoll]

It sounds like a battery eater....have you looked at any of the Sony models....they are very good on battery life....Keeping 8 batteries recharged is going to be a task in itself.....what are you going to use the camera for....family snaps ....???? if so try the Pentax range they only need 2 batteries and are fab in the day light but a little more tricky indoors ....lots of tweaking possible but also point and snap setting there.