[Nottingham] Digital cameras & Christmas!

[Martin]

Folks,

OK... So I'm bewildered with the digi-camera choice and wild range of
prices...

Any comments from anyone for particularly good examples/deals?

There's myself and friends looking for pretty much one each across the
full range!

1: Cheapie point'n'shoot, preferably able to work also as a glorified
webcam;

2: Good point'n'shoot with optical viewfinder, x4 optical zoom,
point'n'shoot but with the options for manual override;

3: £500 or so DLSR, with "LiveView", and good in low light for such as
astronomy.


Aside: I've got the Panthercam working but with only minimal control.
Diving into the source may well be a project for over Christmas!

Any ideas other than throwing darts into a camera catalog?!

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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