spicegirl wrote:want to buy small,compact and good quality.I have no clue about what is good or bad and has anyone any idea what sort of prices and where to get from as i struggle to get time to shop around...thanks in advance
What's your budget? Gadget freaks will usually not want small, compact cameras... They'll prefer Prosumer cameras like the Sony V3spicegirl wrote:thanks for that...varun thanks for the pointer...too much info can be a menace when you dont know what you do or dont need.Coupled with the fact that i need it as a present for a gadget freak husband who has probably been studying camera technology for the last 6 months and i dont want to look like an idiot for buying the wrong thing!
I think you should check out ebay.com.sg I've sold a few on there, 5 mega pixels at reasonable cost, around 200$ with a 12 month factory guarantee. They have been opened, just for testing! because it isn't very nice to sell a defect product.spicegirl wrote:I think the norm will be ok as its just for holiday/party use rather than the technical/professional use...well I hope so!
just to add a point on Chipsets, there are low mid and high end cameras, a rule of thumb is that all low end, and mid range will have a comparable chipset either CCD or CMOS obviously price equates to quality.ksl wrote:I think you should check out ebay.com.sg I've sold a few on there, 5 mega pixels at reasonable cost, around 200$ with a 12 month factory guarantee. They have been opened, just for testing! because it isn't very nice to sell a defect product.spicegirl wrote:I think the norm will be ok as its just for holiday/party use rather than the technical/professional use...well I hope so!
To be quite honest with you electronics can be very dodgy, 10% failure rate is not uncommon, they also need a burn in period, if they last the first 6 months of regular use, they should be ok. Problem arises, if the person uses a camera once or twice in the year guarantee period.
Then it fails after the guarantee runs out, if you see my point. So it is a tip to use as often as possible, to put the camera through its paces to test the components.
just to add a point on Chipsets, there are low mid and high end cameras, a rule of thumb is that all low end, and mid range will have a comparable chipset either CCD or CMOS obviously price equates to quality.ksl wrote:I think you should check out ebay.com.sg I've sold a few on there, 5 mega pixels at reasonable cost, around 200$ with a 12 month factory guarantee. They have been opened, just for testing! because it isn't very nice to sell a defect product.spicegirl wrote:I think the norm will be ok as its just for holiday/party use rather than the technical/professional use...well I hope so!
To be quite honest with you electronics can be very dodgy, 10% failure rate is not uncommon, they also need a burn in period, if they last the first 6 months of regular use, they should be ok. Problem arises, if the person uses a camera once or twice in the year guarantee period.
Then it fails after the guarantee runs out, if you see my point. So it is a tip to use as often as possible, to put the camera through its paces to test the components.
spicegirl wrote:thanks for that...varun thanks for the pointer...too much info can be a menace when you dont know what you do or dont need.Coupled with the fact that i need it as a present for a gadget freak husband who has probably been studying camera technology for the last 6 months and i dont want to look like an idiot for buying the wrong thing!
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