Inexpensive Digital Cameras

Does not work with iMovie 08…
This a very good camera that seems to take great pictures and great 16×9 video. However, the reason I bought this was because of a great big sticker on the outside of the box that says “MAC USERS - IPHOTO COMPATIBLE!” They even court Mac users on their website. It does work with iPhoto. Most cameras do. However, despite featuring mpeg-4 compression video, it is NOT compatible with iMovie ‘08. This is because the AUDIO is not supported by Apple. For many of you, this will not be an issue, which is why I still gave the camera 4 stars (I haven’t used it enough to warrant 5 stars yet). But I have been personally frustrated by the lack of information about which cameras will and will not work with iMovie ‘08 (because it seems that so few actually do). So I hope this helps for some of you Mac users out there.

Ultra Slim, 8 mega pixel digital camera with 3x optical zoom, 2.8″ wide super bright LCD, face detection technology, anti-shake, MPEG 4 H.264 video and You Tube video capture mode.
Casio Digital Cameras

Excellent buy
This camera performs as well as can be expected. Great digital pictures. Easy to handle even for people with big hands. Well worth the money.

Good value
Point-n-shoot cameras are not to be confused with SLRs and ought not be directly compared to them. I’ve had several Canon’s of both types. This particular model is nifty. Great quality shots, very small form factor. Only drawback for me was the circular navigation button. Each part of the button was flush with the back of the camera, and devoid of any tactile sensitivity. It was difficult for me to use the button without actually looking at it. Not a big deal for most, probably.

If you’re willing to do a basic study of photography and learn about exposure, lighting, aperture, ISO, and f-stop, you’ll get great use of this camera. While the feature set is admittedly slimmer than an SLR (see previous comment on such comparisons,) there are definitely enough settings you can manipulate easily and produce some great looking photographs.

One thing that I’ve noticed is that this teeny tiny lens can somehow find a good middle ground when attempting to balance a high-contrast subject, such dimly lit tree against a brightly lit sky. Such composition seems a trade off in most cases with the SLR (at least I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet,) but the point-n-shoot seems to capture the best of both worlds on such shots.

Definitely best used in daylight, or at slow speeds with a steady hand or tripod. I’m not particularly fond of the quality of images produced using the flash, unless it’s the slow-sync setting.

The video clip setting is another nice feature. They’re AVI (read: memory hog,) but great quality and fun to capture short 1 minute episodes. Honestly, I run them through iMovie on my Mac to convert to QuickTime and downsize a little bit.

I’ve owned three different versions of this lower-end model and have been happy with each one.
canon digital cameras