A request for my flist

[mousme]

Okay, folks. Now that I will, in the medium-term future, have a bit more money to throw around, I would like to get myself a digital camera. Bearing in mind that I don't have oodles of cash and am not in any way, shape or form a professional photographer or even a good amateur, I would like suggestions about a reasonable model to look into purchasing.

The payoff is that you'll all get nifty photos in my LJ after that (behind cut-tags, of course).

So. Suggestions? Horror stories? Anything?

Comments

[joane.livejournal.com]

I lovelovelove our little FujiFilm. They've probably got much better versions than ours out now (ours is three years old), but they make a lower-end idiot proof point-zoom-and-click model that fit our needs perfectly.

I'd also recommend going to the CompuSmart downtown; the one just south of the Bay, but I can't remember the street name. We got ours there, and the camera guy (Alan? Adam? Something like that) was awesome about showing us cameras, giving us options, talking prices - he actually ended up recommending one that would give him a decently smaller commission, because it was better for what we wanted it for than the flashy one.