HI guys can you suggest me a cheap I mean really cheap digital camera before christmas? In-store please. It might not get delivered before christmas if I buy online. Thanks in advance.
Need a cheap digital camera
apprentice on 18/12/2010 - 11:31
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These dont come with rechargable battery.
Supply your own. Advantage of AA cells is that you can substitute alkalines for NiMH in a pinch. You can also recharge AA cells in various kinds of chargers: mains powered, car battery powered, USB powered. If you buy a camera with proprietary rechargeable you have to use their charger.
I've experienced both types of batteries in lots of variants and brands of cameras… and I'd NEVER buy a camera again that uses AA batteries - every one I've tried is absolutely hopeless.
The voltage cutoff in most of them them is like 2.6-2.7V… you simply cannot get enough shots from either Alkalines or NiMH to justify the hassle of carrying 3 or 4 pairs just so you can get a day's shooting from them.
Hell, most NiMH charge to about 1.35V per cell but you only get a few shots before they droop to 1.2V or so. At the rated voltage (2x1.2V) most cameras just switch off saying "battery dead" even though the NiMH batteris still have 90% charge left.
That's why my Coolpix has a setting for either NiMH or alkaline. Maybe you don't know it's there? I haven't had any problems with either type of cell, once the camera is informed correctly.
I've also experienced both…and I completely disagree! I would never go back to a proprietary battery & lose the flexibility greenpossum enumerated that discrete cells offer!!! :)
My workhorse Fuji s5800 takes 4x AA batteries and they last for donkeys ages, especially with good NiMH cells like my recent Duracell ActiveCharge acqusitions! In a pinch, even backup alkalines give it a good shake!
Same goes for the missus' Canon A1000, even with 2x NiMH it goes hard…I think you're seriously underestimating modern NiMH rechargables dude! ;)
Agreed - I think the AA situation might be better with some newer cameras, but it's always a bone of contention. Reading reviews of many DSLRs it's quite common that the camera chucks in the towel well before the battery is depleted, even on brand new models.
At my last job we used many cameras for taking building site audit photos. We had Olympus with AA NiMH and Canon with Lithium… the Canon would take a full day's shots on a single charge, whilst the Olympus guys HAD to carry spares because they'd have to do 2 or 3 battery changes in a day.
Right now I'm using a clunky old Sony DSC-W1 for taking a heap of ebay photos (I use it because of it's good optics). No way it can do 100 shots on a set of NiMHs (I have lots of brands, and a good charger). I resort to running the thing on a mains adapter, since changing batteries is such a pain. Yet the Ixus 970is with Lithium can go for days in the same type of usage.
So I guess it's a case of reading the reviews and making sure the camera will function on the significantly lower voltage of rechargeable batteries.
go the Domanye for $58 or Clive Peeters $67 (same camera).
buy rechargables from ALDI for $8(?)
nice.
Llama -I've had this issue with my 2MP canon Powershot A200 -charged batteries just come back with a warning. this camera is 10 years old. All my other camera haven't had this problem. so maybe a voltage regulation issue for older cameras?
Given the age of your camera I'd suspect a charge threshold/discharge curve mismatch with NiMH cells! 10yrs ago they weren't so prevalent, so the tolerances in the camera are probably geared more toward NiCd chemistry, which behaves quite differently to NiMH! ;)
have a look at myer physically, i looked on the caltalogues/online - nothing special. Went to myer and they had a clearance for fujifulm, 12mp, rechargable battery (custom size) all for $75!
Problem with a lot of the Fujifilm and Olympus is that you are locked into XD Memory Cards, which are expensive. I noticed with pleasure that these brands have swapped over to SD in the newer models.
mine is SD :)
Same, SD or XD in the s5800! ;)
Anyway, I've got a bone to pick with you Davo…what are you doing advocating we leave the safety and comfort of our homes to venture out into the big nasty world for shopping? Don't you know that significantly increases the very real danger of us getting a life!!! :p
me confused - camera /cds???
did you post this in the wrong place?
or did you attach the wrong pics?
Cheap and good is the Canon a495 or a490, Domanye has for $58, Office works and Harvey for $77