Key Post: Digital cameras

Re: digicam

Bought a Nikon Coolpix 885 last year. Great little camera, very good quality pics. Check it out!
 
Digital Cameras

How would I fare out if I asked my cousin in New York to buy and send me one - would I get one cheaper still? I would be paying of course.

I am interested in them but would need to find out a good bit about them first.
 
Re: Digital Cameras

There should be plenty of information (both about the technology generally as well as specific reviews) . I presume there are also specialist magazines for digital photography as there are for "normal" photography.
 
Re: Digital Cameras

How would I fare out if I asked my cousin in New York to buy and send me one - would I get one cheaper still?
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Yes - It may be cheaper, but you may be caught for VAT or other duties at the point of importation.
 
memory cards

try www.MX2.com
for memory cards at great prices, much cheaper!!!!!!!!
also paper for photos and inkes,
snap on
liamog
 
Re: memory cards

The Irish Times yesterday mentioned www.dpreview.com as a good site for checking out reviews and comments (including discussion forums) on a huge range of digital cameras. Might be worth checking before buying.
 
Zoooom!

You HAVE to get at least a 2,3X optical zoom , if you want to take good pictures.. Just got a Fuji Finepix 602Z in Prague, Great camera - always good o buy from a company with a camera history .
 
argos

Has anyone bought the Argos Polaroid 3035 - the one for €149.99? I'm thinking of getting one.

No optical zoom, but 3.2m pixels.
Looks Ideal for holiday snapshots.
 
Online store

I recently purchased through [broken link removed] who is getting alot of good reviews. Even when you pay the vat, you still are saving alot of €s. Their support is good, though mind out for differences in exchange rates from what the CC company use and the website, but you still save.

Also he has a small selection onsite, but if you are looking for something else, email them and they should be able to help out.

Just another alternative for people to consider.

Cheers

Mike
 
How much was VAT??

Hi Mike,
Checked the site looks alright.
Just out of interest, how much extra was charged for the duty, or at what percentage?
 
Extra charges

I've been waiting to bite the bullet on buying a camera for a while and mcneelys.com does look good, however they say that no extra duties to be paid on arrival in
our overpriced nation.
Does anyone have any experience from this site, is it included in the orginal price or is that just wishful thinking?
 
more cyber shopping

Have also checked out two German based sites cam-ireland.com and ny-camera.com (misleading names), but their prices seem very competitive with no extra duty involved.A Thank Q EU.
Cheesy designed websites with attractive prices, anyone have any comments on these or others
 
internetcamerasdirect

I ordered a camera from internetcamerasdirect last week. However, 3 days later they came back and said they were having courier problems with the south of Ireland and cancelled the order.
 
digital camera

Hi, amazon uk have an olympus c-220 zoom camera on special offer for 80 sterling, its a 2 meg pixel x 3 optical.
Anybody have any experience of this camera. Thanks
 
some more internet camera sites

I'm looking at buying a digital camera and have asked around, some of the sites people have used are:

[broken link removed] - free shipping but some items are out of stock
- most items in stock, charges about Euro 13 for shipping

These seem to be located in France so manuals are in French but english version can be downloaded.

Compared prices to the Argos catalog last night and couldn't believe it - the prices Argos quote are double those available online!

Update: Did some old fashioned browsing at the weekend and the prices e.g. in The Digital Camera Store while better than Argos are still ~100 euro more expensive than those sites above.

Update #2: In the end I went for a Canon ISUS IIs + 256MB SD + case from Amazon UK (decided it would be nice to have english manuals and irish plug) for e400 all told. It would have cost me the same price here for the camera alone.
 
reading up on digital camera lingo

Bought an Olympus Camedia C750 Ultra Zoom recently on ebay. Turned out a great buy but you want to do your research first on how to use this site.

Also know what you want to buy, here's a link to a very informative article i found
[broken link removed]

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some more internet camera sites

I bought a Nikon Coolpix 3100 recently and am happy out with it so far. After some research, I found www.7dayshop.com to be the best value (EUR 160)
They delivered within a week with nothing extra to pay on this side when it arrived.
 
Re: reading up on digital camera lingo

I ordered a Casio Z55, case, and memory card from last week for my aunt - she saved €120, after taxes. It arrived literally witin 24hrs of dispatch. It did come with a french manual - but the english version is available online. About the electricity - they packed a free compact Continetal/UK&Ireland adapter. So for excepting no English manual, (the camera is easy to use regardless) she saved €120. I don't know about you - but I was v. impressed (especially since she gave me €20 for all my help finding such a good deal online!)
 
Re: Digi Camera

What I find a bit confusing is the accessories.
There seems to be 3 different kinds of memory:
CompactFlash cards,
SmartMedia cards,
Memory Sticks.
Is there a big difference between these and do they require you to buy memory card readers in order to use them?

You will find that CompactFlash and SmartMedia are on the way out as they are large, bulky, slow, insecure. They are, however, cheap.

IMHO, you are better off with the newer, smaller and more widely supported formats such as MMC/SD (SD = MMC + Security) or the new XD format.

Check out [broken link removed] for an explanation the formats.
 
camera memory

Apart from Sony which uses memory sticks XD and SD memory appear to be the dominant formats.
On a happy note, memory prices are predicted to go south in 2005. Some of this has already happened. The XD format is still relatively expensive but you can get 128mb SD memory cards for $15 in the US at the moment.
 
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