[RESOLVED] What's the best digital camera (in $1000 range) and why?

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Originally posted by Randall:
I have cerebral palsy and wonder which was the best also. I just want to take pictures of my dog etc. I have seen some kewl digital cam corders same price as the digital cameras. Would it be better buying one? Sony makes some asweme cam corders. I saw one for $800 at Bestbuy I liked. Then again with the DVD movies gaining on vhs tapes how long will a VCR be around?

I gave up on 35mm cause I shake so like half the roll is black-LOL

Hey nothing I can do but laugh cause why be down?

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I don't have cerebral palsy, but still can't stay still to take a good picture. I use the tripod as much as I can. I own the Nikon Coolpix 880 ($700) digital camera. it is amazing! you can check my doggie web page for the pictures at hometown.aol.com/mdurman1/dogs.html

I have an Olympus 960 3xzoom +2x digital zoom 1.3 mpix gives superb results can print 16 inch x 11 inch pics no sign of blocking,

If you're gonna spend $1000 on a camera, buy a nice 35mm SLR film camera and accessories. I've spent a good deal less than $1000 on my camera setup, and I have a half dozen lenses (12mm through 440mm), a bunch of filters, three tripods of different sizes, a flashgun bright enough to blind people, spot lamps, a huge bag to carry it all, and a bunch of misc stuff like remote shutter bulbs.

Film is much more versatile than digital, especially for the price. To get a digital camera that has the image quality, zoom range, filters, and adjustable exposure/appature that my film camera does, you'd have to spend $10,000 easy.

Sure, you have to spend money on film and developing, but considering that photo paper is about $1 a sheet, and inkjet photo prints are not archival, I'd rather spend the little bit more for film and developing for pictures that I want to keep.

There is not a digital camera yet that can match a roll of Kodachrome and a good SLR.

(On the other hand, I DO have a cheep digital camera that I use strictly for pics that are going on my web site. For that I bought a $200 cheep-*** HP camera and use it on the lowest resolution so I can fit a zillion photos on a cheep CF card.)