Digital camera in Dunnes €89.99

Cucullan

Did anyone get the digital camera in Dunnes for €89.99, not fully sure about the spec but from what I can remember its a 4 megapixel with X4 digital zoom with a 1.5 inch screen and its made by Polaroid.
I'm pretty sure this is it here
Would it be worth getting?

mike65

I'd say clear of that one, any model with only digital zoom is'nt of any quality. Even at 90 euro. Buy second hand.

Mike.

30-6shooter

I`d be interested in this too. Ive being on the lookout for a while now. 4megapixel cant be too bad and zoom features. Anyone got any feedbk on it??

Cucullan

It has X3 optical zoom and X4 digital.
Would that make it a better buy?

RicardoSmith

The quality of a camera is determined by its lense and it CCD. The more pixels you have only gives you a bigger NOT a better picture. Buy a decent brand even 2nd hand, even with less pixels. Digtial zoom is useless. Don't use it. These cheap camera's are rubbish.

DonkeyStyle \o/

RicardoSmith wrote:

The quality of a camera is determined by its lense and it CCD. The more pixels you have only gives you a bigger NOT a better picture. Buy a decent brand even 2nd hand, even with less pixels. Digtial zoom is useless. Don't use it. These cheap camera's are rubbish.

Absolute 100% spot on.
Don't be fooled by high megapixels alone, it's not a measure of quality.
I could post a few of my 4 megapixel pics here that look grainy, badly (auto)focused, rubbish saturation... urgh... it fares very badly compared to a good quality 2mp camera.
I've seen a lot of this kind of marketing bullshít with digital cameras lately, I'm disgusted every time :mad:

Shrimp

I took all these photos..

http://shrimp123.deviantart.com/gallery/

with a 2 Mega Pixel.. 2X Digizoom camera..

Cucullan

I know its common sense you get what you pay for but at €90 surely one couldn't go too far wrong as a first digital camera for messing around with?

RicardoSmith

I bought a Nikon 3700 for €200 last year. Great picture quality. Its light years away from that cheap rubbish. I had a cheap trust camera before that It was dire. After a few hours you'll be kicking yourself you bought it. If you PM me your email, I'll send you some pictures of both camera to compare.

Always compare sample pics on the web before you buy a camera.

http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/

30-6shooter

So what price does a decent digital camera start at these days? Anything worth buying round the E100-130 mark.
Would you get a good decent deal off komplett.ie?
This yoke any better?
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=117066&cks=PRL
or this
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=300772&cks=PRL

melekalikimaka

in all fairness i've bought many the digi camera, optical zoom is a feature i never really used, unless your using a camera for landscape malarky,zoom isnt really even required

DonkeyStyle \o/

melekalikimaka wrote:

unless your using a camera for landscape malarky,zoom isnt really even required

I use zoom a lot to frame my shots... sometimes you don't want that telegraph poll poking into frame, so a quick zoom and it's no longer an issue
IMO deciding on these things is what makes photography fun and creative.

RicardoSmith

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

I use zoom a lot to frame my shots... sometimes you don't want that telegraph poll poking into frame, so a quick zoom and it's no longer an issue
IMO deciding on these things is what makes photography fun and creative.

..you could preserve the image quality and just take a few steps forward or backwards.

Paddy20

Shrimp wrote:

I took all these photos..

http://shrimp123.deviantart.com/gallery/

with a 2 Mega Pixel.. 2X Digizoom camera..

Shrimp,

I checked your photographs, Excellent quality ! As a matter of interest what 2 Megapixel, 2 X Digital zoom camera did you take those with ?... :eek:

P.

Cucullan

Anyone buy the camera in Dunnes?
I got one, pictures looked fine but I wasn't too happy with it also it was one someone else owned as it had pics on it already so I took it back and got my money back. I bought an Olympus c-720 ultra zoom off Ebay for €160 incl post.
Seems a much better camera??

digitally-yours

here is the one i took with my digital camera

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20410577/

location dublin 98 fm skyfest 2005

camera 4million pixels and 12 optical zoom
absolutely class camera
Konicaminolta dimage z3
got it from dubai for 200 euros
http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/dimage-z3/

30-6shooter

I think ill just save 40 avonmore tokens and avail of their digi camera offer. Sure it`ll do the job.

RicardoSmith

digitally-yours wrote:

here is the one i took with my digital camera

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20410577/

location dublin 98 fm skyfest 2005

camera 4million pixels and 12 optical zoom
absolutely class camera
Konicaminolta dimage z3
got it from dubai for 200 euros
http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/dimage-z3/

Nice photo...

digitally-yours

depends what quality you want from your camera
if you will get that avonmore one u cant expect professional quality
i think one shud have a professional camera coz u dont buy it every day its one in a life time thing
i bought my one year ago and its still the latest one in ireland

30-6shooter wrote:

I think ill just save 40 avonmore tokens and avail of their digi camera offer. Sure it`ll do the job.