Depends what decent features and affordable price mean to you. If you are checking DSLRs, I'd consider (actually I am thinking about getting one) a Nikon D80 (maybe even the new D60) with an 18-200 zoom. A friend of mine picked it up in Miami for about 1800$ (which is good for us europeans now when eur:usd=1:1,5). Here it costs 1800 eur.
In a compact range, I'm a long time user of Sony V1, and I'm very satisfied with it. I doubt however you can still buy it as new.
I guess I should have been more specific.Originally posted by TinyTim:
Depends what decent features and affordable price mean to you. If you are checking DSLRs, I'd consider (actually I am thinking about getting one) a Nikon D80 (maybe even the new D60) with an 18-200 zoom. A friend of mine picked it up in Miami for about 1800$ (which is good for us europeans now when eur:usd=1:1,5). Here it costs 1800 eur.
In a compact range, I'm a long time user of Sony V1, and I'm very satisfied with it. I doubt however you can still buy it as new.
I'm looking in the compact range. DSLR would be really nice, but I can't afford it at the moment. No more then $200 would be good. Features would be various lighting and zoom options, macro feature if possible.
I was given a Kodak Easyshare Z1275 for Christmas in December 2007. It was just under $200 back then.
It is a pretty good camera for the price range. It has some "manual" adjustments and of course auto settings.
It does really well with outdoor shots. Indoor pictures are not at all possible if the subject is in motion outside of flash range. It can figure out the lighting okay if you turn off the flash, but the "shutter" speed can't catch the action.
Another downside is if you take high res pictures (up to 12 megapixel), it takes a long time to process each shot. That means you might be (will be) missing the next shot.
Perhaps this is just the case with pocket cameras. In every other aspect it is fantastic.
Google it if you want to check out the specs.