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With a budget that small, you're going to have real difficulty finding a high end digital camera.

My advice to you is to not think along the lines of digital with your £100, but instead look in to 35mm film SLRs. There's a huge selection on eBay as people are regularly clearing out their old gear for digital compacts. For your money you'll get something pretty good, and if you're lucky a few lenses too. There are a lot of film snobs out there, but as someone who's studying photography at degree level I think these people have it wrong. You seem passionate about the subject, and if you want to study it later on too, experience with film will be really helpfull to you.

The advantages of having a film camera to you will be

- Amazing picture quality well within your budget

- The experience of learning how to get that perfect shot, without a little window to guide you.

- You can get your pictures on your computer easily. I believe Jessops put pictures on CD for all of about £1.50 these days.

- Knowing that top end photography professionals still use film cameras.

- And of course, nothing says "I know what I'm doing" more than showing up to that party / family event with a proper SLR round your neck. Very cool. ;)

If you're still not convinced, and absolutely must have digital, I have friends who have got super results with their Sony compacts. Try eBay for cheaper prices. Sadly, I can't recommend Olympus as I've had endless problems with my Olympus digital. They don't make 'em like they used to! Hope this helps.

Hi There,

I would recommend trying to find a semi-recent Fuji small digital. Their low light capability is spectacular. I have another idea though and this is going to be an obscure option, but it worked for me. It would require Adobe Elements to use, which if it isn't already something you have access to, blows the option! But I picked up a DCS520. It's a camera Kodak made by taking a canon eos 1n top end professional film camera and converting it to digital. I picked up a well used but servicable one with spare batteries and such about 18 mo. ago for $175 us. I know they were sold in europe and UK and might be worth posting around and asking for help finding it - I posted on some newsgroups and found a guy who knew a guy with one gathering dust. The camera would be very powerful, require you to learn photography, and if you like it, all the lens or lenses you might use with it would go with you to any other EOS body. If you're bright and resourceful it would make for a great experience to learn and have fun with. It shoots blazingly fast (6 frames a sec) and fires the first shot very quickly. The resolution is small, but if you get the crop close to right when you shoot the image, an 8x10 isn't usually a problem. If you're a 4x6 in print type or mostly for email and in the computer viewer, you'd be golden.

I hope this helps. Also, go to DPREVIEW.COM to research digital cameras. They are based out of the UK and have extensive archives going back to the early days of Dig Cam's and all the reviews and stuff are easily accessed! I love em.

Hope this Helps

Rich

It's going to be really tough with a budget like that to find a professional digital camera (they run over $1000). I just purchased a Nikon D80 (a digital SLR) for $1,200. I would try to look at point and shoot cameras, you could try starting with film and looking for a used SLR camera (this is a great way to learn the basics). Or you could save up and buy a dSLR in the future.

Good luck!

Well, for one thing, you're not going to find a professional digital camera for 150 pounds. Sure, you can get a decent digital camera, just not a professional one. You can get a digital camera for as cheap as 50 pounds, I imagine. Perhaps you should get a summer job and save up. Below is a link to dpreview.com, and the canon powershot A640 for about 240 pounds. It's a step up from your average point and shoot, but not a DSLR. If you want a DSLR, you'll have to save up a little more scratch.

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Go out and check different brands of cameras. look out for the features and manual setting on these cameras. This setting will allow you to learn how to control your exposures. then make your choice.

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Hope they help.

Sony gives you quality... Samsung have small models with all the features with good prices...and it is always a good brand