Originally Posted by Dewbert
I went to Walmart today to look for this camera. I didn't find it, but I did end up buying a Samsung Digimax A402. It's pretty small and is a 4 megapixel camera. So far, I'm pretty impressed. The most impressive thing was how quickly it turns on and is ready to take a picture. I can't tell you how many times I've missed a great shot waiting for my old digital camera to "boot up".
There's boot-up time, and there's trigger time. On all the cameras I've had, both of these have been disconcerting problems. In only a half-second, smiles to frowns, babies head the other direction, and UFOs fly off into the night. One of my cameras needs to have its card reset every time it gets brought up (that company went under).
How do you know before buying a camera what kind of delay factor you're going to have?
I was in WalMart, and discovered that they will develop your film onto a CD for only 2.82. Hey, for that price, I could buy a disposable camera, take only 10 pictures, and be paying only $1 a piece for the photos. With the digitals, I would have to take 120 to 400 photos with a digital to bring the cost down to that. The disposable is lightweight and with 800 speed film and flash can take photos day or night with near instant up time.
The only question would be lens quality and focus. But I bet the higher resolution of film makes up for the lower lens quality.
So what I would like is a small, lightweight, inexpensive conventional camera with a decent lens. Where would I start looking?
Thanks!