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My old digital camera had served its purpose well, but being only a 3 Mega pixel was now somewhat out dated. So I was on the lookout for a cheap good camera. I had planned on getting at least 5 mega pixels because I do feel that is this techno age a 5 Mega pixel is the least you need. For those uneducated in the terminology let me simplify it for you. Basically the higher the mega pixel value of the camera the better quality of picture you will get. A 3 mega pixel will produce 3 million dots to get the picture whilst a 5 mega pixels will produce........................yep you got it 5 million dots in the same area therefore there will be far more detail. I'm ...  Read the complete review

This was my first ever digital camera, which I bought almost three years ago, and I'm still using it now. At the time, I paid around £80 for the camera and memory card but I believe that they have gone down in price and you can pick one up for around £40 these days. For a camera which has 5.0 mega pixels, it takes an excellent photograph. I can't see any difference in quality between a photograph taken with this camera and with my boyfriend's 8 mega pixel camera. The camera itself is small but rather thick compared to some of the newer models around, but it looks good to me in stylish silver. It has a good sized LCD monitor on the back ...  Read the complete review

I was so excited to get my first digital camera 3 years ago especially with my first baby due. No more films, no more bad photos, no more spending a fortune on developing a film of 36 pictures only to get 5 decent ones. I was finally joining the real world! It is a great camera, 5.0 Megapixels and 3xOptical Zoom and a decent sized screen for veiwing. I am not very technical if i am totally honest but even i can work it. The menu function is easy to work and the settings also. The camcorder facility is good and the picture quality is very good. I find the flash a little lacking and slow to warm up and gives it a feel of non-digital camera which ...  Read the complete review

Excited about my scuba diving holiday, I purchased one of these cameras with a waterproof casing, so that I could take some photographs of the beautiful corals and other organisms I would be looking at. This camera was not the most expensive of its kind, but was by no means the cheapest model I viewed. What a disappointment. The picture quality, on whichever resolution, was grainy and unclear. Not to mention that the waterproof housing, which was supposed to be secure to 18 meters depth under water, had a major malfunction at 10 meters which made the camera completely unusable. Although this camera boasts 5 megapixels and optical zoom, the pictures ...  Read the complete review