Beatchick

Ahhh, here's flygirl's camera thread! Thanks, <b>chica</b>!

I <i>just</i> bought an Olympus C-5500 SportZoom with 5.1 effective megapixel CCD, 5x optical, 4x digital zoom for $224 (20% off at MicroCenter) just within the past hour! I am so excited - my first digital camera!! Paris , here I come!! I figure this is not a bad camera for a newbie-to-digital/amateur photographer. I was going to buy 2 of the big memory cards (that each hold about 300 photos) but they had run out of them at the MicroCenter. Lucky me to get there just before closing. I figure 600 photos will be about what I'll take for a 16-day trip. I just need to figure out a place in Paris where I might possibly download the photos to a computer than upload them to CDs while I'm there (just in case).

Sorry, I know the original thread was about Nikon v. Canon but since flygirl topped this with me and since I'm so stoked, I thought I'd share.

TracyB

Hi, I didn't read every single post on this topic, however I am going to buy the Nikon Coolpix 5600 (5.1 megapixel)..It is rated as &quot;outstanding image quality&quot; in the PC World Magazine (June 2005)..The review say's &quot;This compact, versatile model deftly handled our imaging tests, showing better image exposures than even its higher megapixel sibling, the 7900&quot;
In Canada this week it is going for 349.00 Canadian..Anyhow, just thought I would mention this..

kswl

We bought an early CoolPix for more than $900 and were very disappointed, not in the time lag, but because the camera was not very user friendly. Both my husband and I are left-handed, and part of our trouble with the camera stemmed from that, I'm sure. It's still in a drawer somewhere, and DH has moved on to a teeny digital camcorder while I am taking beautiful photos with my inexpensive (cheap! Not much over $100 at Wal-Mart) Hewlett Packard. I took these photos of Costa Rica in February with the HP: ttp://www.worldisround.com/articles/132431/index.html