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Best point/shoot digital camera ?

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Daiyespa
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I'm looking for something durable with good resolution and good video capturing capabilities for under $300. Any thoughts?
Jul 27 2009 11:30AM
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mnjib
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a little over 300 but the canon g10 is an amazing P&S
Jul 27 2009 12:33PM
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Daiyespa
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word thanks fellas. i wanted to weed out the shitty cameras and the overpriced shitboxes.
Jul 30 2009 4:33PM
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popNfresh44
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canon powershot sd790 IS. 10 mp, image stabilizer, 3 inch screen, packed with features. got it for $199 at future shop. its a solid camera for sure.

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Aug 1 2009 6:49PM
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Ericpbp
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Sony - Around 243-279$
dsc-h20

10 mp and 10x optical zoom
Manual settings
Easy setting(Face and smile detection + more)
1080p HD video
3" screen
Compact
Rechargeable batter
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and much more
Aug 1 2009 7:06PM
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Ericpbp
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JK
720p not 1080p
my b
Aug 1 2009 7:11PM
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wintersway
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canons are really nice, and you can change the settings around really easily for "program" mode
Aug 2 2009 10:30PM
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toominator
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canons generally have pretty decent sensors in them. Don't get too hung up on the Mp count, because a shitty 10Mp sensor will take worse photos than a good quality 6Mp sensor. Also, for most people somewhere around 3 or 4 mp is fine.

If you're going to be shooting sports or low light with it you'll probably want a reasonably high ISO to allow you to shoot faster
Aug 6 2009 11:22PM
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niels043
Posts: 814 - Karma: 185
save up, canon g10... pretty much a DSLR in a point and shoot body
Aug 7 2009 10:46AM
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InkShrink
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This. It was rated top point and shoot by consumer reports.
Aug 7 2009 10:59AM
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I_Am_Mod
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spend your 300 bucks on the new GoPro Wide angle helmet cam, it shoots in full HD (1080p) and makes 4MP images, + you can make sweet timelapses if you set it to take a picture every 4sec. or so....

oh and its waterproof
Aug 7 2009 12:07PM
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LC.
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G10 or LX3. Don't know if they're under $300 though.
Aug 7 2009 4:25PM
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