good small digital camera's under $500?

[Bmwbro]

must be 4.0 mega pix or better. i want to be able to take some nice pictures in the night as well as the day. preferably thin as opposed to small.

what do you guys use? a breif review? any idea?

thanks a lot
-marco

[Gr00v3]

canon elph's are good

but for about 500 bucks, id rather have something from the canon A series like the canon a80

check out www.dpreview.com for all your digital camera needs

-karlo
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Lovely Wendie

[bimmerphile]

Olympus Stylus 400.

Cheap, weather-resistant, 4.1MP, rechargeable battery.


Not too bad.

[CarNut4BMW]

Casio

Just picked up a Casio 4 Megapixel for $250 at Fry's (last year's model).

This year's model is 5 megapixel and about $389. Casio was one of the first with digital cameras, I remember a friend having a Casio back in 1995 or 1996, only took 12 pics though!

I highly recomend it, it is much faster then any other digital camera I have used and is the same size as the Canon Elph, read POCKET SIZE ;-) Its also simple to use for those who aren't very technical. It also will show not only a grid of your pics, but also a calender where you can select a day and look at pics for that day! Never seen this feature anywhere else...

Hope this helps,

[iXer]

I have the 4 Mpixel Casio QV-R41, it's very fast and reasonably compact and very easy to use - big display. The 5 Mpix version is called QV-R51 which is probably what CarNut4BMW was talking about. I would advice against the 5 Mpix version - there is no compact camera that needs more pixels. They simply don't have the optics to fully take advantage of the resolution.

I like my new compact Casio, and I admitted before buying it that I would make a compromise with the optics. If I could live with a bulkier camera I would definately go that route and have better image quality.