I've received a number of gift cards to best buy for my birthday...I've been really wanting a digital camera as ours died over a year ago...I want to make sure I can take good pictures...and even have some capability of doing semi-artistic photography as I'm interested in it, but won't put up the moolah for a hard core $1500.00 camera.
I basically want to keep this at $200 or less. I want to make sure battery life is good as our junky nikon could only take about 20 pictures before the batteries died. I want to do some super zooming...do black and white photos...and I think the rest would just be standard stuff any camera should have.
My only experience with owning a digital camera was a Nikon coolpix we bought about 4 years ago...what a horrendous camera. Awful battery life, shut off randomly after batteries were just charged, no longer works and we probably took less than 500 photos with it because it was so bad...I'm planning on avoiding Nikon because of that.
Here is what I'm looking at, but I'm not as adept at this as many of you are:
Kodak Easyshare C763
Kodak Easy Share Z885
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7S
Any others I ought to consider? These seem to have the most options at the best price and the names are pretty trustworthy...what do you think?
I basically want to keep this at $200 or less. I want to make sure battery life is good as our junky nikon could only take about 20 pictures before the batteries died. I want to do some super zooming...do black and white photos...and I think the rest would just be standard stuff any camera should have.
My only experience with owning a digital camera was a Nikon coolpix we bought about 4 years ago...what a horrendous camera. Awful battery life, shut off randomly after batteries were just charged, no longer works and we probably took less than 500 photos with it because it was so bad...I'm planning on avoiding Nikon because of that.
Here is what I'm looking at, but I'm not as adept at this as many of you are:
Kodak Easyshare C763
Kodak Easy Share Z885
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7S
Any others I ought to consider? These seem to have the most options at the best price and the names are pretty trustworthy...what do you think?