Second hand camera wanted

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

scrap my advice they still go for way over £200

The D40 has now achieved classic status, and having a few tricks up its sleeve the newer cameras don't do, I doubt the price is going to fall below £200 any time soon I don't have the need for one, and yet I'd love to get my hands on a good condition one.

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

The D40 has now achieved classic status, and having a few tricks up its sleeve the newer cameras don't do, I doubt the price is going to fall below £200 any time soon I don't have the need for one, and yet I'd love to get my hands on a good condition one.

So i see, when the D60 first came out the D40's were worth bugger all, a mate of mine bought a D40 with lens for 90quid

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Uh oh, if she's going to be taking pictures of house interiors than you might be in for a price surprise... My main concern with that wouldn't be the number of megapixels (resolution), but how wide the lens will go (field of view).
Most compacts / DLSR start above 28 mm equivalent, which is frankly not enough when you're trying to show a whole room. The widest I can recall off the top of my head is Panasonic TZ series 25 mm equivalent, and even that is not *that* wide. You can always get optical adaptors to expand the camera's field of view, but that's never the ideal solution.
Getting a DSLR will allow you to get proper wide-angle lenses (16 - 17 mm equivalent for "cheap" DSLRs), but even the cheapest wide angle lenses will set you back in the region of £400 (and that's without the camera).
Of course the other solution is to find someone with such a lens who's willing to borrow it and get a camera that will fit said lens...

Samsung now do a compact with a 24mm lens with 15x zoom. So a HUGE lend range for a compact.

Originally Posted by Viney

Samsung now do a compact with a 24mm lens with 15x zoom. So a HUGE lend range for a compact.

Oh yes, I had forgotten about that one, Schneider lens isn't it? That's impressive for a compact. It'll probably need bucketloads of distortion correction, but the Panasonic TZ series also do it so it's nothing to be ashamed of

[keith_d]

I have a horrible suspicion that a compact/bridge in the £100 price range won't have a wide enough field of view for interior photography. The only cheap solution I can think of is an old 5 megapixel Coolpix 5000 with the optional WC-E68 converter. That gives a similar field of view to a 19mm on a full frame camera, and 5Mp would be fine on the web.

The next step up from that for Nikon users is a D40 or a D70, both of which are a long way above the £100 budget by the time you add a wide angle lens. I don't know what the Canon equivalents are, but I suspect their prices would be similar.

Have you considered using a conventional compact on a tripod and joining several frames together on a computer. Would that fit her needs?

Keith.

[timwilky]

Also remember you do not want high resolution photographs on a web site. Firstly they are going to be displayed on low resolution screens so become huge and take an age to download. Especially if she is paying for bandwidth. so you end up having to reduce the resolution

Reminds me of a dim wit communications type who put an A0 artists impression of a power plant scanned at 600dpi on our website to be displayed at about 6*4. first we new was fine when she published it and people started complaining about performance. 5 minutes with photoshop cut the image size by about 98% of the original

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Oh yes, I had forgotten about that one, Schneider lens isn't it? That's impressive for a compact. It'll probably need bucketloads of distortion correction, but the Panasonic TZ series also do it so it's nothing to be ashamed of

I have one of them in my bag, always. TZ7 to be precise.