Camera sugestions

[racefan]

My daughter is looking to get a new digital camera. She does not want one with interchangeable lenses she's looking in the $300.00 ish range. She wants as she puts it "one that won't take a month to learn how to use" I know a lot of you have some real nice cameras so any suggestions? Mike

[Nate213]

Ive always had great luck with Nikon or Canon. I buy the Canon Powershots for my guys at work. They take very nice photos and are very durable. They often get dropped and hold up for several years. If you stick with a large manufacture like Nikon or Canon, you cant really go wrong.

[reefnjunkie]

I have been very happy with my Panasonic specificlly the Lumix line. They have a Leica lens which is high end in the optics arena.

 

I upgraded after a few years to the one I have now and it is the go to camera if I dont want to mess with the DSLR

[jackaninny]

Canon Powershot G series. Should be able to pickup a used G10 or G11 for that price.

[Rick]

The last 2 cameras I bought for my wife were both Canon Digital Elphs and my daughter used one of them for a photography class too. (She also borrowed my DSLR from time to time but primarily used the Elph)

[jackaninny]

The G series have a great point and shoot mode but they also have a tremendous amount of manual settings as you get more advanced in your shooting. Lots of room to grow in this series.

[Gill]

I had a Nikon cool pix before the new Nikon D 3000 I have now. I absolutely loved the cool pix; point and shoot it was really that simple. Plus it took great video, was super small and only cost 120. FYI Costco has the best return policy around ;-)

[racefan]

She ended up with a Nikon Coolpix P 100. Good ol Costco, package deal camera,bag,4gb card & charger(otherwise you have to charge batt. in camera) for $310.00

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