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[taimatsu]

If I wanted to buy myself a reasonable-quality digital camera for UKP100 or less this weekend, how realistic would I be being, and where should I look if it were possible? I want to buy it in person, not online. It's got to be easy to use and produce basic web-quality images. I'll want to be able to plug it into both Windows and Mac computers. If it were difficult to break, that would be a bonus. I have no idea how realistic my budget is.

Discuss.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It really depends on the shop assistants. I recently wanted to buy a skylight filter at the smaller Cambridge branch and none of the two muppets knew what I wanted...

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

*nods* but Lucy's want of a basic decent camera is more mainstream than a skylight filter, so they're more likely to be able to help.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Sorry, at the photo department in Dixons, maybe but in a specialist photographic shop I expect them to know what a skylight filter is (a standard piece of kit for any SLR photographer). I also don't expect them to be able to tell me the difference between compact A and B other than what the tech specs on the box say.

[taimatsu]

Hey, even I vaguely know what a skylight filter is, and that's from doing photographic developing for a term in the sixth form :)