Opening the floor

[ladynox25]

So....I've decided that I want to get myself a digital camera. Here's the deal: I'm on a limited budget, so I can't just get the top-of-the-line, all-the-bells-and-whistles, very expensive but also very neat model. What I want is good, solid quality, a decent amount of memory, and some zoom capability. I don't want to give up my old dinky point-and-shoot film camera in order to get a dinky point-and-shoot digital. I want something nice, in other words, but not too pricey.

So, all of y'all out there, those who have digital cameras and those who know a heck of a lot more than I do, what should I be looking at? What models are good? What's the price range I should be looking at for what I want?

The floor is yours.

Edit: I don't know if this matters or not, so y'all can tell me, but it needs to be compatable with both Mac and PC, software-wise.

Comments

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Uhm. In case you don't want to wade through that: Something that takes CF will probably get you cheapest memory, with SD a close second, and MS Pro somewhere in behind. You probably want to avoid xD, but OTOH if you can find an awesome Olympus camera (they're the main users, I believe), I wouldn't let it keep you from it either.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was fairly comprehensible, once I sat down and parsed it.

And thank you.