Good quailty camera

depends what your looking for?

I am selling my canon 350d if your interested?

I bought a Canon EOS 400D at Christmas and is very good. Can upgrade lens over time but the camera body is quite good for the money. Approx €700.:(

Your best bet would probably be a compact digital- very portable, plenty of bells and whistles on most models, not ridiculously expensive. Something like the Canon Digital Ixus? http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_Camera/Ixus/index.asp

Have a look at review sites like Digital Photography Review– they do detailed reviews and you can compare different cameras. Doing a bit of homework will stand to you.

I recently got a second hand digital SLR camera- Olympus E-300. It’s great, but it’s a hefty enought piece of kit- not the kind of thing you can just drop in your bag every day, unlike compacts.

There are others here – Graham, Morlan and Paul – who know more about these things than I do. They’ll probably have useful things to say.

PS Have a look at second hand cameras too- a two year old camera would be cheaper than new but still have many of the same features. (Older camera reviews are archived on the review websites too.)

Currently using a nikon dslr after years of various film-based nikons, so I have a vast selection of modern lenses to go with the body

while not a light camera, i love it

A word of warning on the Canon Ixus – they have a common mechanical lens fault. Mine drove me mad until the thing finally broke, after 18 months of pretty careful use.I replaced it with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. It’s a point-and-shoot compact but it’s got a great 10X optical zoom Leica lens.
The zoom is amazing for a small camera, the tradeoff being that it’s bulkier and heavier and than most compacts. It still fits in your pocket though. About €100 dearer than an Ixus but 10 times better!

It’s nice the way all the old Nikon lenses still fit onto the new digital bodies. With other manufacturers, a vast amount of stuff became obsolete once digiatal came in.

@AndrewP wrote:

A word of warning on the Canon Ixus – they have a common mechanical lens fault. Mine drove me mad until the thing finally broke, after 18 months of pretty careful use.I replaced it with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. It’s a point-and-shoot compact but it’s got a great 10X optical zoom Leica lens.

Yep i’ll vouch for that, great little cameras but my lens also went the same way, still though, it was a lot better than that bloody overpriced G6 heap of crap that i have now.