paS2K

Inexpensive Camera Corner!


Thought that I'd re-up this thread vs. starting a new one.

Today the UPS man brought a new sub-compact camera to my back door I wanted a shirt pocket digi-cam for our trip to Nova Scotia next week....to supplement my bigger Canon with 10X zoom, etc.

I did a little Consumer Rept research and took some notes on several candidates. Ended up getting one from a NYC camera shop. It's a TINY Canon PowerShot DS780 IS ELPH that was on the CR list, but probably a new model in 2009. CR reported that it's one of the FEW sub-compact digitals for good low light pics w/o a flash... ISO= 1600. It's literally the size of a CREDIT CARD, only 3/4" thick and weighs 4.06 oz!

Since I've had pretty good luck with "certified" things, I opted for a refurbished model from a camera shop at a cost (incl S&H) of only $129 I was willing to pay 200-250, but this seemed to have all that I need. Only 3X zoom but 12 megpix...

Has anyone had experience with this camera? TOMORROW I'll get it out of the box....

Lainey

Well, we can look forward to some new pics posted by pas2k! Excellent.

I'll be bringing both cameras on our trip to Canada. It's still nice to have a small pocket camera handy.