I have a canon that my husband had before we got together...he said he paid about $400 for it in Korea while he was there. It's cool and it works for now but it's about had it. Once tax time comes around we're buying a new one for sure! I suggest checking out anything Nikon or Canon both very good brands and i'm sure there's probably something within your budget. We don't all have to have those super nice professional photographer looking cameras to take great pictures . When I first started I couldn't find our camera and had to use my old digi and it's a canon....quite ancient...but still takes great pics.

A few days ago, my husband bought me a refurbished Nikon S52 for $99.  It has really good reviews and is easy to use. I like that the colors are more accurate which means less tweaking of pictures on the computer.  Plus, the manual is easy for me to understand! 

edit:  Nikon Coolpix S52

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I posted a link to an e book about adjusting settings and taking good pictures, I think it's in the Resources Forum under the links topic. if you're unsure on how to change certain settings just read your manual that's what I did, I'm going to experiment today with some new photos and settings. The camera I have is a Canon Power Shot SD700 IS. Nothing too fancy, just a regular old digital camera.

soulstone321 wrote:

Man, you guys are convincing me I need a better camera.  I like the refurb idea.  KangarooKnits, where did he get the refurb, from the Nikon site?

He bought it at www.adorama.com and shipping was $10.00.  The same camera is about $400 at Amazon. 

I use a light box that I made from the strobist site. but inside I just use the natural diffused light from the window

OOOOH! I like that picture...very nice. My stuff is too big to do that with :-/ LOL I have to use the lightbox....JoAnn Fabrics believe it or not has a ton of scrapbooking stuff too....I actually scooped up some cardstock there recently buy 2 get 3 free what a deal!

dobatseatcats- That's why I love living in Las Vegas, it doesn't get that cold and the sun shines almost year round

Margie-Thats why i'm perfectly happy with living in southern NV I know what you're talking about with the wind and dust there were a couple of days here this last week where it was crazy windy and the "sand/dust" was blowing everywhere....couldn't hardly open your eyes outside.

mine is a fujifilm S1000 which was around £129 here, but has great zoom and double macro function, so it can get really close.  i just need to learn how to make it work

I have a Canon PowerShot A720 IS. Don't ask me what any of that means because I really don't know. My sister-in-law had the version before it and I thought it was great so when I finally invested in a digital I chose the 720.

I never read the manual on the camera so two weeks ago when I started to re-take my photos I was playing with the setting dial at the top and found an indoor white setting thing that everyone was talking about on the forums so now it takes pretty good photos.

My older camera lens died...won't close all the way.
So I just cashed in my Visa points and got another Nikon Coolpix from Amazon...great price under 100.00
However, it is 10mp and 3.6x zoom and all of th pics I take came out with files way to big to load to my shops even after I edited them to almost nothing.
So I changed my mp to 5 and they are still too big....so I joined Picnik photo and resized them all.
I still cannot get Etsy to upload the pics...they are telling me that it is not JPEG or PNG format...but I save them to my computer as either or.
So...I still can't finish stocking my Etsy Shpo for the Holiday season since I cant upload the pics.
Any suggestions.............PLEASE HELP?????????????
thx

Hi all, didnt really see a separate category for this, and it has to do with the D50, so Im posting here.What kind of bag does everyone use to hold their D50 and a lens? Im not looking to buy a huge bag to store my camera, 4 lenses, speedlight and cleaning kit -- just something decently small and as unobtrusive as possible for a dSLR, anyway.My Sigma 18-200 is pretty small as far as lenses go looking at the specs, its about 70mm in diameter x 78.1mm long.Anyone care to share?Thanks,         -Bryan