FrauFeli

A happy 2008 to you too, Feli!!! Lots of kisses from foggy Sofia!!!

Happy new year to you, too, have a healthy and fun year 2008!

Thanks a lot, Dhania and Gergana! I'm training to use the wings constantly now..all the houses puzzle me a bit, but anyway. ;)))

The cheapest compact digital camera you might get is perhaps the 5Mpix Nikon Coolpix L10 (or its successor -- the L11 @6Mpix). Although this is a entry-level point & shoot camera, I really enjoy shooting with mine that I purchased about two weeks ago for less than EUR100(!), in order to have something really small to carry constantly around with me! On this occasion I have uploaded some really "raw" pictures for you to check out;)

Meanwhile, I also have located the A560 being "offered" for EUR64, but the link points to a charger for the said camera model:\ Bearing in mind that the A560 has a 7Mpix sensor I am a little skeptical that you could find it for less than EUR100...

Anyway, I wish you good luck in this endeavor,Feli, and am getting curious about its result!

hey feli, frohes neues!
wenn du genauer beschreiben kannst, was du mit der kamera machen willst, was dir wichtig an dem ding ist, dann kann ich dir höchstwahrscheinlich weiterhelfen.

also klein sind die mittlerweile fast alle,
und das mit (mindestens 3-fachem) zoom wird auch kein problem.
von der menuführung her finde ich canon ungeschlagen,
und es sind (soweit ich weiss) die einzigen,
die auch bei so eher günstigen 'knipsen' manuelle einstellungen
(zeit, blende, schärfe) erlauben.
schau mal die hier an zum beispiel -
http://cgi.ebay.de/Canon-PowerShot-A430-Digitalkamera_W0QQitemZ110209393265QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3335QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
ansonsten weiss ich, dass die kleinen von olympus recht gut sind,
die haben prima sensoren.
(immer dran denken, pixelzahl allein sagt jarnüscht).
geh am besten mal in ein geschäft und lass dich beraten.
sag dem verkäufer genau was du willst,
wenn's gut läuft nimmt der die herausforderung an
und berät dich richtig super!
(zwei kumpels von mir waren kameraverkäufer ; )
und wenn der dir einen guten preis macht kauf das ding bei ihm,
wenn nicht geh auf ebay und such dir einen verkäufer der schon lang dabei ist
und gute bewertungen hat.
auf alle fälle würde ich speicherkarte(n) und eventuell nen zweiten akku
(prima sache!) bei ebay kaufen, das bekommst du da echt hinterhergeworfen.

viel erfolg!

Thank you sooo much you all for help!!!
You've been a great help for me, to reduce the number of cameras in question a bit..and to figure out what is most important to me! :))
Mir haben auch grad die Tips von Dir geholfen, Neo! Gut zu wissen, worauf man achten muss oder könnte...
In the end, it was actually really funny, because I first talked to a girl working in that shop (well, she didn't do a bit for the good reputation of women being cracks on technical stuff..or at least she didn't know about the range of cameras they had) and she wanted to sell me that Canon Neo was talking of. I was a bit unsure because the display was really small and the camera itself quite bulky and not that handy, but I told myself..well, when she says and Neo says..And then she gave me a pouch for the camera, and when I checked for colours (being picky...!) and stuff, I asked some guy (he was working there!!) standing next to me for help.
And then, he told me
-that the case wouldn't fit on that camera
-they had just now a memory card on sale, where you got two for the price of one, and this wasn't the one the girl gave to me...
-that he wouldn't have chosen that camera, because there was a very new one with a huuuge display (3"!) on sale and it was reduced from 170€ to 100€ and so quite good quality for that price range.
And it was handy and small and lighter and the options seemed fine to me. And when I paid, I realized that the camera was reduced by even more 20€. Boy.
By the way, it is a Ricoh Caplio RR770. They made the lense of my old analogue camera, and that gave me some good impression as well. It doesn't look really posh or whatever, but I don't care about that that much.
:)))) Sooo happy!!! Finally, a real camera *sigh*

Feli has a real camera!!!! I'm happy to hear you found a camera. And it seems it was a real "Schnäpchen"! I wish you a lot of fun with it and a lot of nice photos for us! :-)))