Good camera that uses SD storage?

[GregP74]

I'm kind of in the market for a new digital camera, and I'd like one that uses SD cards (then I can take pictures and plop the card into my PPC Phone and email them and do all sorts of stuff!

Anyone have recommendations for a good medium priced camera? Say $199-299?

[Qman]

Hey GregP74,

Take a look at the HP photosmart line, I have and use the 320, 2.1 MP with 4x digital zoom ($100 - $149). Oh ya it also does video clips. 8)


HTH

[litri01]

I use a Canon IXUS II Digital

3.2MP video clips optical and digital zoom.

very nice but might be just above your price range

[Rudegar]

dont the ixus II use CF ?

i know my ixus v2 use CF would love if it used SD
though because it's a super cam

though it's not called ixus everwhere think that it's called
powershot sXXXX something in us

[litri01]

If I tried to fit a CF into my IXUS II I would need a Hammer :lol:
It definately uses SD

[Rudegar]

http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/sd100/specs.html
well anyway this is one of the ixus cams which use sd ram
in it's american flavour not 100% sure which ixus it translate to
because they only seem to have 3 versions

[GregP74]

Oh man that one is sweet...nice and small too! Gotta love a cam you can keep in your shirt pocket for have-to-record-moments (like when the gal across the bar is flashing you :shock: )

[Qman]

Man it sure is, sweet! :lol:

[litri01]

looks just like the Digital IXUS II and the specs are the same so I think this is the same camera. It is fantastic the picture quality is superb and even though is small the LCD is still a good size and works well in any ligh condition I have tried it in so far. With a 128 SD I can get over 130 pictures before I run out of space

[Rudegar]

yeah it's design is ok imho
plus that it dont break all that easy

i've drop'd mine on a stone floor more then once
without it getting a scratch

and if you need to you can swing it in the strap as a weapon ;)

though i hate the software not sure about the newer ones but
my ixus v2 need canon software to download the pictures

that is of cause unless i have a flash reader
i pref cams which emulate usb storage controllers so you can avoid
using some "easy" to use program

[litri01]

The Dig IXUS II is OOTB compatible with XP so if you don't want to use the cannon software you don't have to

[mgolanlan]

anoter options in the Pentax Optio S4 which is smaller and 4Mpix.
I should have it soon.

I have the original Canan Ixus, but for 4Mpix instead of 3Mpix,
a larger zoom, and a smaller footprint, I figured the S4 must
be a more useful camera overall.


Casio has the Z4 or something which is similar

[pdhenry]

I haven't experimented much in WM2003, but in PPC 2002 the photo viewer would try to load all of the pictures in a folder into RAM in order to display thumbnails. Obviously (maybe not?) if you have more than ~12 MB of pictures on the card this makes the picture app crash due to insufficient memory.

The lesson would be to limit the size of the picture files or copy images from the SD card to device RAM and view from there.

[monika69]

I haven't experimented much in WM2003, but in PPC 2002 the photo viewer would try to load all of the pictures in a folder into RAM in order to display thumbnails. Obviously (maybe not?) if you have more than ~12 MB of pictures on the card this makes the picture app crash due to insufficient memory.

The lesson would be to limit the size of the picture files or copy images from the SD card to device RAM and view from there.


hmmm, maybe due to the fact I am using SD card with pictures only for about 2 weeks or so, heh ....

seems like M$ has been full of surpises, :wink: as usual

regards,
monika