Digital Camera

well, I went to see the house we will probably be living in & its a great little cottage with an outhouse which will no doubt end up as an art studio.

When we move my dad is giving me 400 quid from what he earns, With this I planned to get a digital camera & perhaps a wacom pad.

I dont really want to spend over 200 quid on either, Looking through websites I thought the best little camera for under 150 was a Canon powershot A60.

Could anyone help me decide? Oh & yes this will be for textures probably so the res needs to be at least 1600x1200

I'm shopping around too . . . I think something around 2 to 3 Mpixels (you're looking for about 1.6Mpixels), they're fairly cheap, well US currency wise...I'm not sure of what the conversion rate it. From past experiences with mapper friends, Olympus is pretty good, I know a few people who would use them for textures and they were pretty damn crisp. But in all actuality it doesn't really matter on who makes it as long as it has the resolution it says and it works well.... You can get a 3Mpx camera for about $200 US. That's a pretty general price too.

Anyway, maybe I'll take some advice some other people are bound to put up here :smile:

well, I went to see the house we will probably be living in & its a great little cottage with an outhouse which will no doubt end up as an art studio.

I don't know anything about cameras really, but I just wanted to say: "Good for you mate" :smile: That sounds great, I hope you really enjoy living there.

I'm using a Trust Camera, cost me ?80 and the picture quality is very gud, (1500x2000) It didn't come with a card so i bough a 64Mb one, but that only cost me ?20 anyway. My advice would be not to be from dixons and the like as you can get a better deal from the small outlets.

Using a toilet as an art studio, how artistic. :biggrin:

/me too tired to read all this now, but try to get a camera that doubles as a web cam.. my elcheapo digi-camera, is fantastic at webcammin..

many expensive models omit this valuable extra..

/ 2 cents.

I don't think Korn wants to be a camwhore. :biggrin:

Alien_Sniper said:
I don't think Korn wants to be a camwhore. :biggrin:

maybe not, but soon/someday, broadband will be more accommodating to live chats..

personally, i enjoy webcammin with my mapping buds, and you have the advantage of using the camera to show someone HOW to do something in an editor, instead of trying it with text alone..

matt said:
My advice would be not to be from dixons and the like as you can get a better deal from the small outlets.

Most peoples advice would be not to get anything from Dixons, Commet, Currys or PCWorld cos there all owned buy the same company.

PCWorld have become even more s**t now cos they dont sell half the stuff for upgrades now either like cpu's or motherboards not that I would go there for them anyway cos I hate them with avengence because they dont know what there talking about, they are to over priced and they sell Packard Bells which knacker up just after the one year warrenty is up.

/rant

Anyway I think that the cannons and olympus are pretty good but I've not had much use with digital cameras.

I hope you get the house mate and have a grate time living in it.