Richard wrote:

T i m wrote:

Hi All,

I am interested in a 'pocketable' digi-cam with reasonable quality
(for typical indoor / outdoor 'snapshots'), good battery life (ideally
replaceable if not std cells) with expandable memory and not a fortune
(so ~£100 etc) please?

Better pictures than yer typical camera-phone[1] and not as bulky as
what you might take out for real 'photography'?

It doesn't need to be truly rugged or waterproof as such (but it
would be nice if it still fits the remit above), the sorta thing you
might carry with you to record those before and after d-i-y / work
shots and not need to really mollycoddle (but not meaningfully abuse
ether of course).

What is in *your* pocket? ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

[1] I know some phones have pretty good cameras on them now days but
we don't have / want such a phone ta.



Canon Powershot A85 bought as a refurb from the Canon outlet on eBay. It
has been superseded but I strongly recommend that you take a peek at
their site to see what is available if you want a perfectly effective
camera that you can treat as disposable.

Don't know if this link will work, but search eBay for 'Canon Outlet' if
it doesn't:

http://search.stores.ebay.co.uk/Cano...950978QQsofpZ0


You buy at auction but they trickle about 5 or 6 out each day. My first
one was dud - focus didn't work - but they refunded the money instantly.

I would suggest Snipeing for what you want.

Richard

Further to my previous posting; I wouldn't consider buying any digicam
that would not focus in low or no light. I dissmissed a Fuji Fine Pix
solely for this reason. It must, IMO, have a focus illuminator to be
properly useful.

Richard