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My 6 year old camera is playing up, it's testing my patience ! For under £100, can you get a decent camera with decent picture quality? Having paid £300 odd for my old camera, can I expect similar picture quality for a camera under 100 (assuming technology have caught up) or should you still be lookng for under £150 price range.

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Try this site they usually have some good offers.
Digital camera, camera, digital dv camcorder and accessories - Jessops

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W. C. Fields

I paid a tad over £500 for mine (Nikon D50) but the quality?(Great)& comes with an editing programme.
The cheaper cameras have fewer pixels & you can't change the lenses( picture quality still OK)
But I hope Jessops site is of use.

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W. C. Fields

Depends what you call decent...
I take my photos for the Grapevine on a £70 Vivitar from Asda. Its fine for general purpose, not so hot on close-ups though

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Buy a 7 mpixel phone and camera...

Disagree with that no focusing, can't change the aperture,limited flash use(batteries go flat too quick)& no zoom.

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

My Daughter has a Samsung I6 but you can get the newer one the NV3 for about £97 off Amazon.

Try your Local ASDA as ours has some really good point & press ones for around the £100 mark.

If you can stretch a bit further then some of the bridge camera's are good I've got a Fuji S9600 and it has a 10x fixed lens that covers up to 300mm roughly, and is very easy to use. That was about £200 but the S8500(?) is a lower pixel count but should be as good. and the beauty of the Fuji is it focuses down to about 1/2" in Macro mode !

I won't get rid of mine and carry it in the bag with the Canon DSLR ( and a Nikon P5100 )

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The Canon A560 looks a cracking camera (at £96 from Amazon). It has a x4 optical zoom 35-140mm equivalent and decent macro (5cm). Also depending on whether you're bothered it has a viewfinder, lots now don't they use the rear lcd (I can't get on with that!). It takes 2 AA size batteries and has lots of shooting modes. I've been recently researching as I'm being bought a Canon A720IS for Christmas!

Canon UK - PowerShot A560

Canon Powershot A560 Review

Amazon.co.uk: Canon PowerShot A560 Digital Camera - Silver (7.1MP, 4x Optical Zoom) 2.5" LCD: Electronics & Photo

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"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Go retro ! Get an excellent old SLR for £25.

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Trouble film is more expensive a bad shot on film is a shot wasted a duff shot on digital.................delete.
No developing or printing costs with digital.
you can edit take bits out put things with digital.
slightly under/overexposed can be corrected with digital.
Some digital cameras come with an editing programme
Sorry but for certain circumstances film has had it's day.
Oh! by the way I'm a recent convert to digital (18 months)

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

You can do monochrome & colour by using edit programme(& even sepia)
you can vary ASA setting so you can shoot in bad light & still use a fast shutter speed 1/4,000th sec on my camera.

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W. C. Fields

I said I'd never go digital, never stop using my Pentax SLR ... guess what?
I now don't have to wait to develop a film, don't have to pay for prints, don't waste any shots ...
However, for 'arty' or portraits, I'll still use the SLR.
Until I can afford a digital SLR

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Then save & afford it Two Sheds it's well worth it.

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

And you can't post pictures on the vine with film

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

I took 200+ shots today Two Sheds ...... I don't think I could afford the film !!!

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

What lens were you using Nick?

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Didn't know you were a twitcher, Nick?

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A glass one Canon EF 100mm-400mm L IS


I'm not Snadger, I just like watching Birds/Wildlife ... I took this today as well

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

We seem to have come to the same conclusion narrowing down to Canon Powershot A760IS, around £20 more than I had originally budgetted for. It has more goodies than Canon IXUS 70 but I gather I can miss its compactness that you pay for. I heard that Canon does good quality lens if that's still applicable to their digital cameras .

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Quite a few of the compacts have really good little lenses Veg, Canon, Fuji, Panasonic, and Sony have good ones maybe not as good as an SLR but there again then are probably 1/5th of the price

The Powershot range are popular. Have a look and see if they take converters, some of them you can buy a converter that fits to the front of the lens to increase the magnification, that will give a little more flexibility.

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/