Digital Camera Suggestions

[DrStalker]

I am looking for a digital camera with the following options. Hopefully it exists.

- 2 megapixles (Trying to keep price < $300)
- Litium Ion or some other built in recharable battery
- Movie Mode
- Web Cam/Streaming (I thought I saw a camera with this option, and would like to avoid purchasing both a web cam and digital camera.)
- Compact Flash Prefferred for media

As I am looking I see that the movie modes are usually limited to a lower resolution then the still images, and are limited in length to 15-30 seconds. I would be curious if there are some cameras that allow you to take a movie up to the full capacity of the memory card you have.

Currently I have found the Nikon Coolpix 2500 for $279 and the Cannon S200 for $299 both at best buy. I'm not sure about the web cam feature on either. If anyone can give feed back on either of these cameras it would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[GTaudiophile]

The Canon S200 fits that bill I think.

There are TONS of digicam threads around, so please use the search function and check out DPreview.com.

 

[Blues X]

Here's a 3.1mp at Buy.com for $297:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10330126&hdwt=31107&loc=2099

It's the Kodak DX 4330.

 

[Miramonti]

Finepix 2800z is the best <$300.

2mp, 6x optical zoom. Check out dpreviews.com and steves-digicams.com for reviews. The 2800 was his choice for best last year. They all are most challenged in low light and some have warping on the edges when using the zoom. None are perfect and all of them have some issue or another that people bring up.

Most don't include an AC adapter ($50 or so), or nimh batteries/charger ($40), and most only have 8-16mb of memory, so you need to account for buying more also.

 

[tsnyder]

Canon makes an excellent camera. There's at least 3 or 4 different models that will fit the bill. I bought an s110 last year and it's amazing how small it is for a 2mp camera.

 

[Sid59]

canon doesn't let you take movie mode for hte whole card.

the last time i read, Sony was the only camera that made use of a whole card for movie mode.