suggestions for a new d cam...

I have the Canon Powershot A40, it is an excellent camera but is somewhat under your price range, ($250.) So, all I can do is vouch for the Canons as I have heard, (and experienced, from my two different Canons,) only good things.

Another note of recomendation; whatever you get, buy it ONLINE. From ebay.com half.com even from an online retailer, which you can find using yahoo shopping. This can save you $150-$200 american dollars. Also, your sales tax, (unless you live in California I am sure they outlawed tax-free online shopping, or some other state I think New Mexico?)

If you need any more advice, just email me rocketman4874@hotmail.com

Also, you can see some examples of my Powershot A40's work on my website, www.geocities.com/rocketman4874/home.html

I use a Sony FDMavica... Not sure about all of the 'specs' but, it takes perfect shots... It was around $400.00 I think.

new cam

I just got one (if you havn't already noticed the 5000 pics i've posted!) It's a Sony DSC-S85 4.1 MP..AMAZING shots and ULTRA easy to use (cause im an idiot when it comes to those things)..I posted some pics earlier that I took with it in the Betta baby photos...I paid 450 US for it

Check out

http://www.megapixel.net

They have reviews on just about every decent camera. There's a section in each review where they take pictures of the same building with each camera so you can directly compare image quality...everything else is very in depth and seems very impartial.

My only suggestion is that you should make sure it has an optical zoom and not just a digital zoom.

I have a Sony Mavica FD83 that uses a floppy disk and I absolutely LOVE it. My friend has the Mavica that uses a blank CD to record the pictures and is equally pleased with his.

In some ways the floppy disk storage may be a pain as it doesn't hold as many pictures as the memory cards, but they are cheap and will plug into any computer. I hated having to run cables to my computer with my first digital camera.

Sorry -
But dont listen to ArkyLady

Your average floppy, priced at $1 each, (average) will hold, (once again, on average,) 2 Megabytes of Data. A normal picture, with low compression of data, (=High Quality, High Compression = less space but less quality,) takes up about 1 Megabyte. So you can store 2 high quality shots on your floppy, on a data device priced at $.50 a Megabyte. Or you can use a flashcard Camera, which offers a selection of Flash Cards anywhere from 4 Megabytes to 1 Gigabyte, or 1000 Megabytes. A 124 Megabyte Flashcard is priced at or around $30, so this is about $.25 A Megabyte, and is about a fifth the size and can store more than 120 HIGH-QUALITY pictures. As I used about 250 Megabytes PER-DAY when I visited Boston, so that woul be 125 Floppy Disks, and you would have to change them every two shots. Now, you get home and copy them to your computer - Maybe you dont have to connect any cables, but you do have to go in and copy 125 Floppy disks of data, which would take whereabouts of 3 hours, if not more, with a fast computer. It took me about 5 minutes to put on my 3 Flashcards, 250 Megabytes of Data, on my computer in Boston.

Sorry for the length, but I wanted to save you some misery later and figured it was worth your time.