Cameras
Fugifilm Finepix 2600Z 2.0 mega pixel.. It is a point and shoot model, 5x zoom and 3x digital zoom, autofocus, very adjustable if you want it to be, it is hard to take a bad picture with this camera outside. Inside in big rooms it is an awful camera, the flash doesn't carry beyond 10ft. It takes much better pictures than my Polaroid. Had this camera for a couple of years and haven't felt the need to upgrade. Biggest challenge out doors is keeping a steady hand.
Fugifilm Finepix S5200 5.0 mega pixel.. I got this camera in 2006 for fathers day and has really changed my picture taking. I've really abandoned the 35mm era after getting this camera . It has the flexibility of a 35mm SLR with many advanced features. It takes surprisingly good indoor pictures at events, and the 10x zoom is makes a good beginner sports photography camera. It can shoot 3 frames in about 1.5 seconds and uses small xD cards for memory. I aquired a 2x telephoto and .5 wide angle lense kit for some more advanced shooting.
Fugifilm Finepix A500 5.0 mega pixel.. I got this camera in early 2007 for $100. At the time the larger viewscreens were coming out on most cameras and most were at the 6 megapixel level. Making this little camera obsolete to most. But for $100 and no extra for memory cards since I could use an xD card from my S5200 it was a huge bargan.
Polaroid Ion 230(deceased), 2.1 mega pixel. Cmos chip, not the best camera but was very small . It was really hard to get a clear unblured good shot or set up panoramic images with this camera because it auto adjusts all the time and no way to turn it off. Still there are some photos I have taken outdoors that came out quite well. The secret is to take lots of pictures and turn the exposure down, you get a few that are quite nice. I carried this everywhere for about a year then it died.
Vivitar Vivicam 10(deceased) : 640x480 VGA grade digital camera( 0.3 megapixel) with 8meg of memory. This is about the best sub one megapixel camera I could find in 2002. In 2004 when we went to Yellowstone the batteries overheated and destroyed the camera...although I was able to rescue all the pictures I had taken, I did not save the camera. The battery company covered the cost of the camera but I really never found a submegapixel camera that was it's equal.
