Basically I got a very low budget, so gimme some recommendations on a budget camera that'll produce pictures good enough to post on the site. Which camera do you use and how much did it cost you? Do you have an example picture to demonstrate the quality? Is it good enough to make a home-made porno, and does it automatically zoom in on all those juicy bits? (forget the last question) but drop some suggestions..
you may need to be more specific about what low budget means. as you can spend between £50 and £5000 on a camera so "low" is pretty relative. ive got an olympus c4040 and i love it, i think its about £700 so that may be a bit pricey, but its more a professional camera rather than just a point and click one, olympus make point and click digital cameras as well and if they are anything like the higher-end ones the should be good cameras as well. i have a friend that used to have a 2mp fuji one and he was quite happy with it and i dont think it was very expensive although there was a noticable differency in quality between his and mine.
I have a Samsung Digimax 230. This is my 1st digicam so was not wanting to go OTT. 2 Mpix, 3XOptical Zoom, 1.6 LCD Monitor, Movie Clip, Voice memo. Cost me £170. Quite happy with the picture quality. All comes down to the more you spend the better you get.
Oh, I was thinking under the £100 mark definately. Even some suggestions for under £50 would be appreciated. I have seen a range of cameras recently L'Espion, Omijia etc... that come in around £25-£50 so I'm considering something in that price range. Gee, £700 for yours Tad? Must be something special! I want something preferably with a 640x480 output and a quality sufficient to capture pictures clear enough to display on the web, but don't need it for hi-qual laser reprinting.
Lithium that's coming closer to my budget but still unfortuntely a bit steep for the wallet to climb. Sounds like a nice cam with many features, but like mentioned I'm not too fussed about features atm - I just need this camera specifically for still picture-capturing and don't really need it for motion-capturing (the porno thing was my idea of a joke)
you may have problems getting pics worth using anywhere on a sub £50 camera. ive got a housemate that has a lesbian camera, its called somethgin like that anyway (maybe its the l'espoin you mentioned) it came free with his, wait for it, TIME computer, so tehre you go really. hes used it once and never again. picture quality was far from usable, max-min-only res is 640x480 but the pics are very grainy and bad colours. no flash or screen. ive seen mch better pics come from phones (seriously) . certainly wouldnt reccomend it. i dont really think it would be worth your while to spend less than £50 on a camera maybe not even less than £100. i think you would at least want something with a flash on it. i can try to find my mates lesbian and take some pics with it if you want an example as for £700, that is what they are now i paid about £1k for it, but it is a lovely camera.
to be honest I have not used the movie clip yet. I just bought the cam for still pics. Personally I would not buy a cam below 2 Mega Pixel.
Here is a link to Firebox who do a range of buget/fun cameras. The http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=cat&id=cameras gSmart Mini2 is quite good and I have been meaning to get one for a while. Advantages - Tiny, rechargeable battery(fromUSB), 16mb memory, stills, movie, web cam. Disadvantages- no removable memory, no flash, cannot change internal battery( lasts about a week in standby, a day switched on, so no good for hols) The Epsilon 1.3 at £99 has a flash, 16mb removable card, and takes regular batteries. You can probably find these cheaper with a bit of searching. If you want more than the odd web pic then look at moving up to a big name camera at £150-200.
I have one of these. It's not very quick, the white balance/flash takes time to get used to for indoor and night shots and the zoom is a little poor but it cost me £120 from Staples. I have a 128 MMC that can hold a fair few quality pictures. Meblin
I've got a Canon Powershot S40. 4.0 MPixels, 3x optical zoom, can take something like 320x240 videos as well. It's about £500. I also have a Canon IXUS v3 3.2 MPixels, 2x optical zoom, can take 640x480 videos. It is also about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's about £350. I'd say the S40 has better image quality (and manual focus, that's always a plus) but it's much bigger and more expensive. The IXUS is also much better for extreme close-ups, because it automatically throttles back the flash, for the right exposure. With the S40, close-up shots are usually extremely over-exposed if the flash is switched on. P.S. Canon cameras r0x0r
