I generally avoid cheap stuff, as you get what you pay for, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Buy.com has something called the Norcent DCS-1050 on sale for $79, from a list price of $299.
You can get other digicams for that price, but not with the specs on this one:
Those are some crazy-good features on a $79 camera. Of course, I have no idea if they actually work or if the camera explodes in your hands after you use it for a day. But customers seem to like it - all three reviews on Buy.com give it a perfect 5 out of 5 stars, and on Amazon, where it costs $130, it gets an average score of 4.5 stars.
Not bad for $80 bucks.
You can get other digicams for that price, but not with the specs on this one:
 | 10.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera |
| Slim, elegant design |
| Face Tracking Identifies faces within the frame and automatically adjusts for ideal focus and exposure |
| Anti-Shake compensates for camera movement to deliver crisp, clean images |
| Captures high-resolution images up to 3648 x 2736 |
| 3.0" LTPS TFT LCD, scratch-resistant acrylic panel display |
| 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom |
| Movie mode captures video clips with resolutions of 640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 160 x 120 |
| Built-in flash with auto, red-eye reduction, always on, slow sync, forced on and forced off modes |
| Manual, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent and custom white balance settings |
| 22
modes: Program, movie, voice REC, portrait, landscape, sunset, night
scene, night scene portrait, text, back light, kids, snow, food,
fireworks, building, quickmode, sport, soft skin, candle,
party,building, soft flowing water |
Those are some crazy-good features on a $79 camera. Of course, I have no idea if they actually work or if the camera explodes in your hands after you use it for a day. But customers seem to like it - all three reviews on Buy.com give it a perfect 5 out of 5 stars, and on Amazon, where it costs $130, it gets an average score of 4.5 stars.
Not bad for $80 bucks.
Hey, Scott..
Must say I am a fan of your podcast... Listen to every show...
Which is where I heard of the above referenced "Good Deal" on a Norcent point-n-shoot. I am a DSLR Canon user, who just wanted a basic pocket camera I could keep with me at all times for for when I was not slinging around my 20D. Well, I bought this camera (w/ a additional 4gd card), partially due to all the good recommendations I read on it, and to be honest the price didn't scare me away either :) IT was hard to believe, but I went mostly on recommendation this time (bad move)... Well, it just goes to show, at least to me, that "You get what you pay for" as I found this to pretty much be the worst point-n-click I have used having used/owned a variety over the years, mostly Olympus, Canon, etc.). The functionality was very poor, the auto focus just never seemed to be able to get a good fix (in good light or failing), even on high-quality image setting the images always looked a bit soft, manual mode (dont ask), and if an image was in focus it was over contrasty, basically unusable even for fun. I played with the camera's setting at length (here again the utility was pretty low quality). Even bought a 4gb card since I expected to have this camera for a while, but I AM SENDING IT BACK... Buy.com has been giving me the runaround, but they are getting it back even if I have to pay them just to keep it ;-) Anyhow, this has been a very poor experience, and I guess my only question to you was, did you honestly have a chance to use this camera before you recommended it, or was it just a word of mouth thing?
Keep doing a great job with the podcast (not so much the product endorsements, lol) j/k
Good things,
A.J.
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