Looking for a good digital camera, good to travel with...?

Question

I am traveling to Europe in about a week and I am staying there for 12 days! I was wondering if anyone knew some good digital cameras to take for traveling. I want a camera that can take very good quality pictures, is easy to use, when you press the button to take the picture I want it to take right away not wait 4 seconds after I press the button. Also a camera that took good action shots would help. I dont want to spend more than $250. If anyone know about a good digital camera, or the best brand of cameras, any info you have would help. Thanks!

Answer 1

Good that you provided some details. I would highly suggest you buy a camera that uses AA batteries. The reason is you can replace the battery anywhere you go because it's ubiquitous. Below are my recommended cameras. In short these are excellent cameras for taking great images as well as giving you manual control if you ever want to go in depth with learning photography. These will be within your $250 budget. I suggest you get two 2GB SD cards for your travel.

Canon PowerShot A630
Canon PowerShot A570 IS

Answer 2

Even though I personally own this ultra compact camera, I would still like to highly recommend the purchase of a Nikon Coolpix L10 for the following reasons:

1. Besides taking well-exposed hi-quality 5 megapixel pictures, it uses a standard set of rechargeable double AA batteries which last a very long time;
2. Has a 3x optical zoom;
3. Takes "continuous" 2 frames per second "action/sports" images;
4. Has macro feature for close-ups of small objects focused under 6 inches;
5. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;
6. It's very small and light;
7. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards - a 2 gig card sells for $19 at samys.com;
8. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;
9. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;
10. Has tripod mount on bottom of camera;
11. And the price is a mere $119 [sold at Samy's Camera - samys.com, and Staples.com.]

Review(s) can be found at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Coolpix-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B000N49WPC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6009841-1963852?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1183957829&sr=8-1

along with pictures provided by satisfied purchasers.]

Good luck!

Answer 3

If you pre-focus by pressing the shutter button half-way down while aiming at your subject - or where you anticipate your subject will be when you want to take the picture - it will help considerably. You can set your camera in "Sport" mode or "Scenery" and this will minimize the lag. If you do not use the flash, it will help. If you turn off "face detection," it will help. If you turn off the LCD monitor and use the viewfinder only, it will help.

Some point and shoot cameras are better than others. I have a Canon Powershot SD900 ($325, though) that seems quite fast to me. If you go to http://www.dpreview.com and read the reviews (once they are available for the cameras you are considering), you can go to the page called "Performance" and see exactly what the tested shutter lag is, as well as several other performace benchmarks.

Here's a link showing a chart of various cameras and their shutter lag as well as the time it takes to shoot five frames. You will not see any DSLR's listed, because they have no shutter lag. If you click on the column heading, such as "One Shot," the chart will sort according to that measurement.
http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm

Answer 4

because of the fact which you would be vacationing it should be small and transportable too and the Powershot SX30 is an extremely magnificent digital camera some others to evaluate could be Nikon Coolpix it quite is yet another quite magnificent shuttle digital camera. based once you opt for it for you will possibly desire to to attend till april and get the Sony Bloggie 3-D pocket digital camera and Camcorder that's form new and proper for vacationing combining a video and nevertheless digital camera in one, plus no might desire to hold a battery charger in case you dont decide for to because it makes use of a prove USB stick because of the fact the charger and additionally for fast downloads appropriate onto a working laptop or pc or online. I also have a Bloggie touch it quite is likewise a great digital camera yet i decide for the three-D whilst it comes out in April so i'm able to shoot in 3-D which would be way cool.

Answer 5

Here's an article on compact cameras with short delay times: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcameras/cameras/0,239036184,339271492,00.htm

I would stay with a Canon, Fuji or Sony since you are going on a trip.
IS, or high ISO, might be an important feature since some places don't like you using flash.

Answer 6

my suggestion
go to yahoo shopping
digital cameras
digital camera GUIDE
be sure to check titles on the left side
the guide should answer your questions