digital camera

[adam-wilden]

Both megapixel count and lens/CCD quality are important. The advice we give people (I work in IT Support) is to look for anything above 4mp (which is nearly all cameras now) but with a good mecahnical zoom lens (digital zoom is simply a cheat). As my personal preference I use Canon because most Canons have a simple Janet & John point'n'click mode but also allow more advanced settings to be changed for those who like to experiment.

But anything costing £80+ from a good make (Canon/Nikon/Fuji/Sony etc) will probably be all you need.

Moggie enthusiasts may want to check that the macro mode works with flash enabled (not all cameras do this).

Having said all this, like CJ, my old Canon Powershot is only 2.2mp but has a Carl Zeiss lens and takes great looking photos for web use etc, but if I need fine detail or want to enlarge areas I use a more modern one. Also it's a bit on the heavy/clunky side these days...

Whatever you get, allow £10 or so for a 512mb/1gb memory card as all cameras require these if you want to take more than a handful of photos...

Cheers - Adam.

[overider]

In addition, choose a named camera you have heard of before.

that why i said buy a wel known name so you get a good lenz etc then if you got a named cam you get a good lenz all you need to look for is the one with more pixel. my mobile phone has cyber-shot 3 meg pixels and its spot on photos.

[dave1949]

this is a link to the thread i think you are looking for
http://www.mmoc.org.uk/index.php?name=P ... pic&t=9028

still love to put pics on the site,just need time to work it out
i see from the above link there was a request to make the info a sticky,any chance someone can do that?

[Stig]

still love to put pics on the site,just need time to work it out
i see from the above link there was a request to make the info a sticky,any chance someone can do that?

Have a look in "Useful Tips", there's a sticky about pictures there.