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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.

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This is handy, thank you! How big a memory card should I be getting? Don't you usually get one with the camera?

I have a 512 mb card (that would be about £35 from Jessops, nicely matching your budget), which gives me about 300 pictures, I didn't manage to fill it even wiuth 4 weeks in australia.

That's really helpful, thank you.

Some cameras might come in a bundle with a card -- it's worth looking around -- but in general they seem not to. (Many cameras have some internal memory but in practice it's usually very small indeed.)

How big a card is a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question -- it'll depend on what you can afford and whether you're likely to be taking loads of pictures in a single session or not. If you're not likely to be taking more than a few at any one time, you can probably go for a relatively small card -- realistically I'd suggest going for the largest card of the appropriate type which will fit into your budget...

Compacts usually come with a memory card but it will be too small.
How big a card you need depends on the resultion (MP) of the camera and how many pictures you're likely to take in one session.

The linked camera has 4MP so a photo will probably be around 2MB. Now you can extrapolate.

7dayshop.com do very cheap memory cards if you can afford to wait for mail order. ie get a small card to start with, and some more larger ones later. My 1gig SD card cost me under 15 quid.

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