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[nonethefewer]

'Embed Media' is new to me.

Anyways.  I am "shopping" for a digital camera.  I ask you, O Internets, to assist.  Basically, I want a goddamn point-and-shoot camera, that is good with details (since I'll be taking pics of yarn and knitting), compatible with Windows, has decent storage capacity, zooms in/out fairly well, and won't run out of batteries in under two seconds.  Ideally on the low end of the price scale - this is basic stuff, after all.

*reads up a bit*  A lot of what I want this for is static stuff (yarn, kitty, &c).  I don't need or want a movie-recordery-thing.  It should have a flash built in.  Auto-focusing would be awesome.  It must accept rechargeable batteries.  Natch, it should have a power cable.  I wouldn't mind a timer, but that's a feature, not a must.  It does not at all need to have image modifying things on the camera itself, nor should it have the ability to print to a colour printer.

In conclusion, I would love for it to either have its own software or have it interact nicely with the software I have, or something.  Hell, it can be read as a drive in Windows Explorer for all I care, so long as I can copy/erase more than one image at a time, and I don't have to scour the internet to find the software.

What say you?

Alternately, is there a good brandless digital camera quiz-like thing where I can do this myself?

Comments

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

you too? i wondered if i had somehow previously missed this "embed media" feature.

[rosefox]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare.asp

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

All the photos I post are from my Canon Ixus 55, which has everything you've said above and is nice & small. The PC interface is *riduculously* simple (plug a cable into the camera & the computer sucks all the pictures into a handily-dated folder). *AND* it knows which was is up on the display screen on the back! That makes me happier than it really should ;)

I think the Ixus range is up to 70 now (mine's over a year old) so if 55s are still available they should be a decent price.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Get a Canon S400. It's what regyt used to use, and it has all of your features except maybe the power cable (never checked), unless "accept rechargable batteries" means AAs rather than something custom.

The thing that's awesome about it is its macro mode, which is great for taking close-ups of things like yarn.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I tire of eating batteries like candy.  So I either want rechargeable batteries or I want a power cord, so that I'm not wasting batteries left and right.

And, thanks!

[geekgirrl.livejournal.com]

I love my tiny little Fuji Finepix. They seem to come out with one every year or two, and they're all good. The one I bought a couple of years ago is a little pissy about low light and I hate using a flash, so I got a tiny little tripod for it, and it takes amazingly good pictures. Can't remember all the technical details at the moment, but it's great for product shots.

I took all of these with it: http://ridethespiral.com/index.php?page=gallery&category_id=1