Tavia4x4 sorry bout that. Its all down to you at the end of the day. Not saying buy from jessops by any strech! shop around the Intertron defo. Fujis are brilliant, as are Canons but use it first because you dont want a non-canon canon camera. Sony's and fuji's memory is expensive, and make sure you do get a brand for certain except kodak because they are a dead duck now.

Possibly try a search on kelkoo for Fujifilm FinePix A330, or Canon PowerShot A75 (little bit more - but looks pretty canon rather than non-canon) Canon PowerShot A60 (little bit olderish but its nice and i've used this one) Konica Minolta Digital Revio KD-220Z (maybe - look first )

Nice selection there, some are a tad over a ton of beer vouchers but those look the best value. As said, kelkoo is possibly best tool for it.

Great thanks for that....

(gotta love briskoda for finding info about anything and everything )

Olympus are better than Canon or Nikon at similar prices. Also use standard memory cards unlike Sony for example.

I see the canon uses "normal" batteries... i want to avoid that if possible as i know how fast these cameras can eat batteries

I see the canon uses "normal" batteries... i want to avoid that if possible as i know how fast these cameras can eat batteries

Rechargeables work pretty well, and there are some which are "designed for cameras"...if it uses a camera battery which is rechargable, it will eventually die and be expensive to replace. And if you want to carry spares it can get expensive too...

Rob.

Normal batteries are better, means when you are away you do not need to worry about chargers and charging. I look on anything that can take standard size batteries as a major plus point. After all you can buy rechargebles with a good fast external charger as well as use long life alkalines when on the move. Also when propritory batteries die it is a pain. Which my notebook PC took ordinary batteries rather than

Rechargeables work pretty well' date=' and there are some which are "designed for cameras"...if it uses a camera battery which is rechargable, it will eventually die and be expensive to replace. And if you want to carry spares it can get expensive too...

Rob.[/quote'] True... i use a canon ixus thingy at moment, think its either a 3 or 4mpix but its really nice

For a printer go for the Epson stylus photo R300 just aver

I wouldn't use anything other than Photoshop for photo editing. PAint Shop Pro was good enough when it was free programme on a magazine cover.

PSP7, full version, has done everything I have ever needed, and I use it quite a bit!

I wouldn't use anything other than Photoshop for photo editing. PAint Shop Pro was good enough when it was free programme on a magazine cover.

All depends how much money you have ....paint shop pro 9 +

All depends how much money you have ....paint shop pro 9 +

PSP7, full version, has done everything I have ever needed, and I use it quite a bit!

PSP 7 is probably the best version nice and quick to load and do things

psp 8 is a lot slower but have just tried PSP9 still slow but the results are much better PSP photo album 5 is good as well for sorting and printing home photos

I would definetly say go digital, it does change how you take pics, you can not only shoot alot more, you can see the pics immediatly, not faffing around waiting to be developed ect., you don't need to print them all as well, can be viewed on e-mail, easy to set up a picture trail for others to view, or a laptop/ portable dvd player for portable use, ( just load them onto a cd ).Or on a pda. I have a Kodak Digital camera & have had no problems with it, go for optical rather than digital zoom ( it can be done digitally on any pc ). as for printers, I have had lexmark & wouldn't have another, I have a hp ( a all in one/stand alone one ) & have been happy with it ( although its a older model & could do with a later driver ).When i was looking around for mine, the hp cartridges were bigger than the epson one, but now I would definatly go for one that all the colours are in seperate tanks so you can change each colour as its needed.

It would make sense to go digital as ive just bought her a cd-rw for her laptop.

Is nice for a "plain english" description too. as i generally talk too much bull****

Olympus "Proper" use XD like the fuji. If you get an olympus that doesnt its more than likely not an olympus inside. Batteries are ok, rechargables are best thought because all CCD cameras chew power, but are getting better and thats one of the main reasons i say avoid cheaper ones. Sony make almost all the CCD's out there and therefore make the most power friendly cameras, however the ones i mentioned for the price are pretty damn good cameras. Get some proper rechargables and possibly a card reader because you dont want the power dying when your transferring the pictures (can damage the file system on the camera and lose ALL your photos) as pretty much ALL CCD cameras use the batteries when downloading from USB rather than USB power

It would make sense to go digital as ive just bought her a cd-rw for her laptop.

Go digital you can take hundreds of pics not worry about how much they will cost and then pick out the best ones and dump the rest.

trouble is now my SLR's are next to worthless

Older Olympus models all used Smart Media, and I think it is a pity they stopped as it is so much cheaper than SD, XD MM etc.

Olympus "Proper" use XD like the fuji. If you get an olympus that doesnt its more than likely not an olympus inside. Batteries are ok, rechargables are best thought because all CCD cameras chew power, but are getting better and thats one of the main reasons i say avoid cheaper ones. Sony make almost all the CCD's out there and therefore make the most power friendly cameras, however the ones i mentioned for the price are pretty damn good cameras. Get some proper rechargables and possibly a card reader because you dont want the power dying when your transferring the pictures (can damage the file system on the camera and lose ALL your photos) as pretty much ALL CCD cameras use the batteries when downloading from USB rather than USB power

Epson R300 printer comes with a card reader in it, works a treat

if she decides to go digital, ill prob buy her the R300 printer and let her pay for the camera...

if she decides to go digital, ill prob buy her the R300 printer and let her pay for the camera...

try this

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?EPS-101615

Have you tried printing a CD with your Epson (I think the R300 does CD), I know a couple of people who have/had them, theres a problem with the disc holder, it has a piece of flexible plastic on the end that gets slightly bent and it wont take in the carraige, after a while the plastic breaks rendering the carraige useless

try this

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?EPS-101615

Col - I might be able to arrange a (marginally) better price than this, so if you're interested, give me a shout first...

Rob.

Have you tried printing a CD with your Epson (I think the R300 does CD), I know a couple of people who have/had them, theres a problem with the disc holder, it has a piece of flexible plastic on the end that gets slightly bent and it wont take in the carraige, after a while the plastic breaks rendering the carraige useless

Have to admit I have never used the CD printing tray