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Originally posted by carnut169
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For casual personal use, I would urge cranking the budget up to at least $400 or you will be disappointed primarily because of crapola lens quality in cheapie cameras.
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I agree w/ Ted on this one. I use an Olympus 2500, but when it goes will get a Nikon 995. A great digital camera that deals with light very very well.
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I'll say, just because a lens is small, does NOT mean it's crapola. In the 35mm world, this may be true; but not for digi cams. Digi's get the image of a CCD. The CCD has a much smaller exposer-plane than the 35mm. As the CCD size goes up (dimensionally) so too should the the size/brightness of the lens(es).
Check out the specs on some of these tiny cams. They have Aspherical elements and great f-stops.
That said, I just purchased a Minolta DiMage 7i. . .with a big ol' bright zoom lens.
