Digital Camera Advice!

[megoat]

Hey y'all. I'm looking to pick up a new digital camera. My current one was a $99 cheapie from 4 years ago. It's 2 mega pixel and a little out dated. Anyway, I'm looking to get a new one and wanna spend around $200. Any recommendations? What features are most important? Pixels? I mainly need my camera for taking clear and clean shots of stuff for my eBay auctions. Anyway, I'd love to hear some recommendations. It's kinda overwhelming shopping for cameras......

[grayhank]

I got mine last year at Sears for about $129.99. It's a Kodak EasyShare C300. Works pretty good and is what I use to take all my pictures. It has the view screen on it, a self-timer and it uses an SDCard. Easy upload to computers. You can also change the flash settings and even turn the flash off if you need to.

[kinostadt]

I really like the Canon Elph line. I've owned the sd100, sd600, and now I have the sd1000. They are compact, durable, and the controls are very intuitive.

[Hulk]

Whatever cameras you look at, and ultimately you are going to decide on the features most important for your own personal use, I highly recommend the following two sites as the best I've seen for reviews and in depth analysis (and debate) about most cameras.

http://www.dpreview.com/

http://www.steves-digicams.com/

That being said, I highly recommend both Canon and Panasonic cameras from personal experience, and Nikon from the recommendations of others.

[Brue]

I really like the Canon Elph line. I've owned the sd100, sd600, and now I have the sd1000. They are compact, durable, and the controls are very intuitive.

I have had a 200 and 600 - I argree completely. I'd also add that the phots are high quality and you can shoot good video on it. you can get a 600 for about $200 - a 1GB memory card upgrade is necessary over the 16MB is available at walmart for $15.

[MeerkatMego]

I have a Nikon Coolpix P2 and I love it. It's a 5 megapic and the pictures are great. If you're just looking for a point and shoot type camera the Coolpix are perfect, it also takes nice close-up pics. I think the Coolpix are up to P12 now and I'm seriously thinking about getting one for my husband.

[megoat]

Thanks for the help everyone!

[toys2cool]

I've had a few, and now I have the Sony Cyber-shot I bought last year for like $400 7.2 MP,but now you could find it for like $240 and it's really good.I'd also recommend the Canon Power shot,If Maria Sharapova says it's good then it's good