Kodak Z-712-IS Camera on Sale at Office Depot Now

By Carl Farley for Guy Thibodaux, SIG member . . .

Office Depot has the Kodak camera I talked about at the last meeting on sale for $249.00 with a $30.00 gift card for other supplies. It has all the bells and whistles anyone could want – image stabilization, both automatic modes for the novice and optional settings for the advanced photographer. It also takes good movies 640×48 resolution at 30 frames per second and can make decisions about aperture, shutter speed and ASA ratings to optimize the picture.  It’s a great buy. Only thing missing is a hot shoe.

Member Needs Help and Comments Before Buying New Camera

By Carl Farley for Dennis Doherty, SIG member . . .

Your HAL-PC digital camera blog was very interesting and food for thought.  Regarding the digital zoom – I’ve had good luck with mine on my Canon A40 but makes sense to “enlarge” on computer to avoid hand shake.

As you know I’m in the market for a $150-$250 camera and think I’ve found a good fit. 

It’s the Canon PS A570 IS. Has all features I think are important for a not-real-serious photographer like myself, including IS, 4X optical zoom, 2.5 LCD screen that lights up to let you know what settings you’re at, 7.1 megapixel, up to 1600 ISO, AA batteries. Not a mini size but can easily fit in your pocket and the Canon name which I think has the greatest lenses.

Any comments?

Need Help Buying a Low-End (Cheap) Digital Camera

Chris Read asks . . .

I am in the market for a low end digital camera.  I looked at one at
Walmart for less than $100 that has a 3x optical zoom lense an a 5 x
digital zoom.  My old one has just a digital zoom.  How do the optical
and digital work together?  Does one first use the optical and then go
for the digital of more is desired?  Naturally I will use our shopbot
skills to get the lowest price once I “zoom in” on the desired model.  I
casually considered the used market, but for less than $100 bucks with
warrenty I probably would not bother.

Canon Digital Rebel Cameras – Dave Hansen’s presentation

This line of cameras has been wildly popular over the past few years and Dave is going to tell us all about his Rebel XT on Saturday, Jan. 20th – I hope you can make it. Heck, maybe I should have bought one rather than my Sony DSC-H1. Guess I was too cheap!

If you’ve got any questions or comments on Dave’s presentation (or, anything digital photography), just add them below and we’ll kick it around. I’ll tell Dave to watch this blog so he can have some fun, too.