02-03-2003, 05:29 PM
Tomegun
Get as nice of one as you can afford. Once you own one you will start to be interested in them and know more about them, soon you will see better cameras than yours and kick yourself for not upgrading to the better one. I would get one with a minimum of 3 megapixels. Anything less than that and you won't be able to blow up that picture of your monster catch to anything bigger than a 3"X5" size.
Also make sure you get one that allows rechargable batteries, they really eat up the juice, especially when you use the digital display a lot.
Also invest in nickel metal hydride batteries (NiMH) they are considerably more money but they last much longer and will charge more times before they stop keeping a charge. Radio Shack has a battery charger that will recharge NiMH or NiCd for ten bucks that has a discharge feature that helps the life of your batteries.
Look at the accessories that come with your camera, the memory cards can be expensive so if one camera comes with a large memory card but costs more than the one with a small card, factor that into the price. Just look at the price of the memory cards and calculate the difference. It used to be about a buck a megabite, but I think it about fifty cents per megabite now.
Most importantly once you buy your camera, don't continue to price them. You will be dissapointed when you see the same camera sell for $100 less six months after you get it, that is the way technology works. Something new comes out and the price of the old technology drops down an ice hole.
When I am float tubing I put mine in a clear zip lock bag that has the sliding type sealer (easier to open when you are fighting a fish and want an action shot). In a pinch you can operate the camera while it is in the bag without hurting the quality too bad.
This is just my opinion, you can get digital cameras for well under $100, but if you get into it at all then I think you will eventually be dissapointed in them. I have an Olympus and am happy about everything but the 1.3 megapixel quality. The pictures look great in about a 3"X5" size, but that is about as big as they will go.
Hope this helps,
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Get as nice of one as you can afford. Once you own one you will start to be interested in them and know more about them, soon you will see better cameras than yours and kick yourself for not upgrading to the better one. I would get one with a minimum of 3 megapixels. Anything less than that and you won't be able to blow up that picture of your monster catch to anything bigger than a 3"X5" size.
Also make sure you get one that allows rechargable batteries, they really eat up the juice, especially when you use the digital display a lot.
Also invest in nickel metal hydride batteries (NiMH) they are considerably more money but they last much longer and will charge more times before they stop keeping a charge. Radio Shack has a battery charger that will recharge NiMH or NiCd for ten bucks that has a discharge feature that helps the life of your batteries.
Look at the accessories that come with your camera, the memory cards can be expensive so if one camera comes with a large memory card but costs more than the one with a small card, factor that into the price. Just look at the price of the memory cards and calculate the difference. It used to be about a buck a megabite, but I think it about fifty cents per megabite now.
Most importantly once you buy your camera, don't continue to price them. You will be dissapointed when you see the same camera sell for $100 less six months after you get it, that is the way technology works. Something new comes out and the price of the old technology drops down an ice hole.
When I am float tubing I put mine in a clear zip lock bag that has the sliding type sealer (easier to open when you are fighting a fish and want an action shot). In a pinch you can operate the camera while it is in the bag without hurting the quality too bad.
This is just my opinion, you can get digital cameras for well under $100, but if you get into it at all then I think you will eventually be dissapointed in them. I have an Olympus and am happy about everything but the 1.3 megapixel quality. The pictures look great in about a 3"X5" size, but that is about as big as they will go.
Hope this helps,
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