Digital Camera Recommendations?

Redd · #1 07-10-2005, 11:10 PM

Hey, I'm gonna be buying a digital camera pretty quick here and it's dawned on me that I have no freakin' clue what I'm doing. I'm going over the review sites and they're all blending together to me. So I was hoping to unleash the awesome power of OOT.

Can anyone make any recommendations? These are my preferred criteria, in decreasing order of importance:

1) ~5.1MP
2) Li-ion battery
3) Decent optical zoom
4) As much manual control as possible; ISO settings, shutter speeds, and other stuff that I don't know about but want to learn
5) Small size. Preferably in an ultracompact. Is this mutually exclusive with point 4?

TStoneMBD · #2 07-10-2005, 11:14 PM

search the archives, this has been posted twice in the past month.

Redd · #3 07-10-2005, 11:17 PM

Sorry, OOT virgin. Didn't realize this would be a common one.

gorie · #4 07-10-2005, 11:18 PM

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Sorry, OOT virgin.

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that's hot

theredpill9 · #5 07-10-2005, 11:36 PM

Just wait a year and buy a 5 MP camera phone. Then you can take pictures of women's asses and upskirts. YAY !!

Blarg · #6 07-10-2005, 11:41 PM

Hey, Paris Hilton trademarked that. I hope you have a good lawyer.

Redd · #7 07-10-2005, 11:47 PM

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Just wait a year and buy a 5 MP camera phone. Then you can take pictures of women's asses and upskirts. YAY !!

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Why couldn't I do this with a regular camera, as long as I'm sneaky about it?

AsiaKurosawa · #8 07-11-2005, 12:26 AM

I like my Canon PowerShot, the SD400 is the 5.0 mp version. Super small so you actually carry it with you, never had a problem w/ canons (went from s200 to s400 a few months ago; next purchase will be this line as well.)

OrangeCat · #9 07-11-2005, 02:29 AM

look here -> http://dpreview.com/