Topic awaiting preservation: New camera in near future

I have decided to save for a new digi camera and I am looking for the best for the $'s. I have looked and the one that I seen to like the most is the Canon Powershot A70. It's less then $300 and has great features from the ones that I have compared.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for a camrea that is under $300??

Indus: I would suspect that camera would be a good one for a digital. Canon has always been a good name. I just recently inherited a Canon AE-1 Program that is about 20 years old but it still takes REAL sharp pictures. Non digital, but still good for a cam. Currently sells on Ebay for about $120 bucks.


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I am thinking about buying the new Canon G5 (~ $700) because my wife already has a Canon EOS-30 (Elan7 here in the US) and I could share the flash. If it was not for this sharing, I would buy a Olympus C-5050 (~ $ 550). These are a little more expensive cameras but both have 5 mega pixels and more megapixels is a must if you intend to edit your photos.

i've been doing some window shopping myself and the a70 is my pick too, i've read nothing but rave reviews. its also tough to find manual features in a camera in that range, a definite winner.

as far as "more megapixels" imo a 3mp camera is really more than enough for most purposes that i've found. that gives you like 2000 x 1500 res, or somewhere in that ballpark, which is pretty solid for most applications you'd need it for.

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