Help clueless George buy a digital camera for kitty pictures

[LTEC!]

'nuff said. hes clueless...doesn't want to do the research.
so please help his poor soul.

[TCO]

Clueless and lazy. (Just to make sure that the aspersion is adequatly descriptive.)

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Your price insensitive right?

What kinna pix you gonna be taking? Unless your gonna do large format stuff you can most likely get away with 3.2 Meg Pixel cameras. Slews of choices in that range. Low $300's at retail for the most part.

Look at optical zoom and forget digital zoom (you can do the same through photoshop).

Look at the type of memory media it takes. Stay away from Olympus since they are going with the new XD memory cards which are about twice the price of tried and true compact flash. Secure digital cards are about 10% higher than compact flash.

Youmay want to have a look at the new Sony Mavica that can burn your pix onto a CD. Seems I saw it on line at $540 ish.

[The Mad Monk]

Are there any good, relatively cheap digital cameras with a bayonet mount?

[TCO]

This is too complicated.

[LTEC!]

you just want a go-buy-this it costs this much and its cool?

[TCO]

duh...

[LTEC!]

ok. how much do you want to spend on it?

[monolith94]

How much are you willing to spend, GP?

[LTEC!]

gmta!

[monolith94]

Great minds post alike.

[LTEC!]

Okay George:

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC F717 about $599. 5 Megapixel, big zoom lens, active matrix lcd

if you want a mini-camera
Minolta DiMAGE F100, $275. 4 Megapixel, act mtx lcd

if you want to go cheaper
Canon Powershot S200 Digital Elph $245 2 Megapixel actmtxlcd

[TCO]

I will spend up to up to 25% above a "middle of the line" camera. But if it is no big deal, I don't mind spending less. Just tell me something that takes decent pics that won't give me buyer's regret.

[TCO]

Ok, which one. I make about 6 figs (not much more than that) and am a single bachelor.

[LTEC!]

yeah but its a middle line according to whom?

i know someone who thinks a middle line camera is worth about 1500