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Old 06-25-2006, 07:50 PM
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Help with buying a digital camera
Need some advice. The wife and I are looking for a digital camera. We want one that is user friendly and fairly inexpensive (around $150.00). I don't completely understand how many megapixels I need, but we'd like one that takes good clean pics. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Old 06-25-2006, 08:04 PM
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Need some advice. The wife and I are looking for a digital camera. We want one that is user friendly and fairly inexpensive (around $150.00). I don't completely understand how many megapixels I need, but we'd like one that takes good clean pics. Anyone have any suggestions?
Just looked at best buy.com and they have an oregon scientific camera for 99.99.....the next cheapest is 229.00.
I wouldn't get anything less than 3 megapixels.
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Old 06-25-2006, 08:17 PM
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Are the megapixels what affect the clarity of the picture? Meaning the higher the number the clearer the pic?
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Are the megapixels what affect the clarity of the picture? Meaning the higher the number the clearer the pic?
Yeah, but with, say, a 4x6 picture you probably won't be able to tell the difference between 5.1 and 3.2 megapixels. If you try to blow the image up to a 5x7 or bigger you will start to notice the difference. 8x10 is pretty much out of the question with a 3.2, unless you're taking pictures of a wall or something.

Check this out...it'll explain it better than I can.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-megapixel.htm
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that and they enable you to zoom in further and still keep a focused picture...i have a 5 megapixel camera and it is very good...another thing to consider is teh size of the LCD screen
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I definitely would not buy a camera from best buy, they are typically overpriced in everything electronic.
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I definitely would not buy a camera from best buy, they are typically overpriced in everything electronic.
True, but they aren't $70 overpriced on a $229 camera.
I was using that simply to illustrate the difficulty in buying a $150 camera that is user friendly and not a pile of crap. I think he's going to have to raise his price point to have any real choices.
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