Bloodwinter Clan

yeah im looking into buying one for my trip to south america!

im lookin at the 800dollar range but im also lookin for a digitalcamera/camcorder combo.

any suggestions or even better cameras NOT to buy

If I were you, I'd get two.

Get a great one around 600-700 or so, then buy a POS one that you can bring out to the bars etc.

Also, what do you use it for? For anything thats not super high-rez, the $200-300 ones aren't much worse than the $800 ones.

im planning on using em for for just general stuff when i hang out with friends or when we plan on going out on the town for a weekend.

my dad wants it to b a duo setup so i guess ill convince em to buy both hah.

Get a camera for pictures and a camcorder for videos.. Don't expect both out of one.

You'd probably end up better with a 400$ camera and a 400$ camcorder than an 800$ camera or camcorder that does both.

Also, the more expensive cameras are built for photographers. So unless you have any interest in controlling aperture, shutter speed, ISO settings, etc, you might want to stick with a good Point-and-Shoot one for probably around the 300$ range.

I just bought a Canon Powershot A510, for 200.

3.2 MP... only reason i found to buy a higher MP rate woudl be to print out high reso pictures, and im assuming you would be using to upload onto your computer? I found no point in buying a higher MP honestly. Just a waste of money, unless your going for the more "professional look" like Barbos was explaining. Bring lots of batteries either way!!!!

From my past experiance get 2 cameras one for stills and one for video, you can spend about 6 to 7 bills and get 2 cameras that will make you happy. Video that shot still you end up pissed about your still shots. Stills that shot video don't give you enough record time or quality.

best camera's in the world are nikkon mine was like 300 at the time and it's so easy to use and it's very plug and play on your pc preem used it once and hooked it up and his pc reccognized it right away. if you want easy to use and great pictures go with nikkon

do not get a sony
they are slow....