Have iMac OSX-Can anyone recommend a digital camera?

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hiyall804

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I would like to invest in our first digital camera. I am not a great photagrapher, but like the idea of being able to e-mail family and friends who live far away photos of our kids, dog, vacation photos etc. Can anyone recommend and fairly easy to operate digital camera that is not too expensive. Any information would be great!

Thanks Y'All
 
What is your exact price range? Digital cameras go for $100 to $10,000. My advice would be to get something that uses a memory card, and is from an established vendor - it'll play better with OS X.
 
For point and shoot simplicity, I'm quite fond of the Pentax Optio cameras. Two members of my family (my sister, and my mother in law) have the Pentax Optio E10 and its a great little camera which easily takes great quality photos.

Before you go out hunting for your camera, though, you'll need this:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/cameras.html - its a list of all the camera models that are tested and known to be working OK with iPhoto.

A really good place to read up on, and compare, different models is http://dpreview.com/ - Digital Photography Review. Check out the "Buying Guide" and compare cameras you might be interested in. Nikon Coolpix and Canon A10s are both well liked point-and-shoot cameras. Sony's cameras are, to my mind, terribly overpriced.

One that you might want to consider is the Panasonic Lumix cameras, which are *incredibly* good quality for a consumer camera at a reasonable price - the Lumix has optics by Lieca, a high-quality German lens-maker. The zoom range is great, you can go from a wide-shot to a very long-range telescopic very easily. The sensor is a Nikon 6MP, and the construction is simple and smart. Its fairly bulky compared to the pocket-sized Optios, though, but the quality of the optics makes it worth thinking about.
 
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