In response to vivasuzi's post from May 03 2009 08:20PM
vivasuzi said…
My current scenario is that I have a digital camera, it was the first HP camera ever made, and they stopped making cameras after it!
That sounds like you got the first model that HP ever made and that the company only made that one model. I know that's not true, as HP was in the camera business for many years and only recently got out. HP had dozens of camera models, so that must have gotten garbled somehow.
You can get a surprisingly good digital camera for less than $150, and $300 will get you a corker of a camera. (If you had shopped at Circuit City during the last couple of close-out weeks, you could have gotten a nice digital-SLR for $350 or a fantastic compact camera for $300.)
My current fave affordable camera is the Canon PowerShot A590, which sells for $110-130, depending on how you catch a sale. It has eight megapixels, optical image stabilization, a 4x zoom lens, and it takes good photos and videos. It will easily fit in a jacket pocket, although you won't want to carry it far in a pants pocket. If you want smaller or more features, you'll pay a bunch more. And the A590 will take much better pics than your HP.
If you shop around, you can get the A590 for $120, an 8 GB SD memory card for $15-20, spare rechargable batteries for $30 and a case for $25. That's less than $200 for the entire kit, ready to roll, with a chip that will hold 3,000 pictures.
Good luck!
--Bob (who loves spending other people's money...)
