i use a sony but its outta date (dsc s700 cyber shot) i do love the sony! ~Medo

I have a Vivitar, it's so-so, I wouldn't get another.
One of my daughters has a digital SLR Canon, I don't know what model it is, but the pictures are phenomenal, I would love to have one.

Mary

Are these photos OK, proudgm?

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My brand new Canon 40D. It is actually too heavy and too much a camera for me, but I couldn't resist. :-(
I am still learning to use it. At this rate, it'll probably take years....

Mary, wonder if this is the same model your daughter has...

my mom has a kodak that she got at sams club, i soo want that one!! not to exzpensive and its easy to learn!! LOL if i remember right they say that the optical zoom is the one that you want to be a higher number. not the other. good luck ;') ~Medo

Pitimpinai Those pictures are awesome! What are those flowers? By the way the soloman's seal, sedum and annabelle are doing great. Thanks again!

Canon Power Shot A580 - 149 at Staples. Needed to buy a card for 13 bucks and don't have a case for it, but I have an old one that works fine.

Thanks, proudgm. Those are Prairie Smoke - Geum triflorum.
I WS them two winters ago. They bloomed for the first time this year. I collected a lot of seeds recently. If you are interested, I'll mail you some with other seeds this fall.
This is a picture of the plants. They are about 10 - 12" tall without the flowers:
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Piti, those pics are wonderful!

pitimpinai Thanks! I would love some seeds.

A few years back I went to a camera store and bought a used Fujifilm FinePix 2800Z. It has a macro lens that lets me take very good close-up picts.

I'm documenting a tomato growout this season and you can see some of the photos online in click-through pages. Just click on the tomato icon to advance to the next page. All the photos are uploaded as thumbnails so to show a larger view you need to click on the photo which will blow up in a separate viewing window.

Trudi

Here is a link that might be useful: WS 2008 Tomato Growout

Dang! I uploaded the link incorrectly. Sigh.

Let's try that again...

Here is a link that might be useful: WS 2008 Tomato Growout.

Canon 20D. I love it, took a lot of getting used to, faster than I thought, had a lot of tips and good help and got it at an especially good deal at the time, brand new, from a Canon-authorized dealer (an important consideration for the warranty while it lasts). For as thorough camera discussion as I've seen lately, look on the OGR forum where someone was looking for camera recommendations, maybe on page 2 or 3 now. Some of it was simple and some too technical for many to grasp except those willing to do some homework which you should do regardless, covered both point and shoot cameras and dslr's, not all models of either but a good cross section.

Every single one has its pro's and cons. I love mine because it had the least noise at the time which is a big consideration for low light situations allowing me to get a shot where even the best flash or time exposure would not work. I have a separate flash for mine which I love, cumbersome at times but worth it. For me it depends on being able to capture as many different photographic situations as I can be equipped to do, indoors w/flash or no flash, outdoors, landscapes, animals, birds, long-exposure night photos, near or far, will never get one very expensive lens, and flowers which are a big interest but only one on many. Some p&s that have large apertures may be more flexible indoors, am not read up on that laterly.

Some of those situations you can capture with a point and shoot once you gain experience, but not all. They are not generally good indoors except at closeup using the onboard flash. They do have in-camera sharpening which requires the least post processing compared to all dslr's. Sometimes I can get by with only cropping/resizing and nothing else, some don't seem to notice but I can tell the difference even at smaller sizes. Most produce good quality, depending on your expertise, regardless of which camera, but with larger prints, there is a big difference.

I'm not one to jump into an upgrade every time many others do it, would rather now have the 40D, but by the time I decide I may be ready for something else, they will have yet a new model or several. I always shoot RAW and at the largest size and quality possible and do not have enough storage with 2 hard drives and back up for 10 mp photos, like the lcd and self-cleaning sensor on the 40D although latter doesn't always work over time.

No consumer camera I know of will capture all night photos if the subject is moving without blur except light trails from moving cars or distant stars and galaxies are interesting or for special effects.

Thanks guys! You gave me a lot to think about.

I bought a Lumix earlier this year but returned it because the pictures were BAD even just normal photos of people standing a few feet away. I think it was defective but didn't want to take a chance and get the same one again. I went back to Best Buy and told them I wanted a point and shoot camera with a decent zoom lens and a good macro lens so I could take close-ups of flowers and they sold me a Sony Cybershot DSC-H3.
Here's a close-up I took with it set on macro:
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It was around $300 and has 8.1 mega pixels and a 10x optical zoom. It helps to compare the mega pixels and optical zoom when shopping.
My daughter also bought a camera recently that she is happy with, a Canon PowerShot A590. It was less expensive ($160) and more compact. The macro on it works very good too for the price but it doesn't zoom as far if you want to take pictures of something far away. Here's the link for that one at Wal-Mart:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9208355

Here is a link that might be useful: Best Buy Sony Cybershot

I wanted to show you some photos my daughter took with her Canon PowerShot A590. Click to enlarge:

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She had some that were blurry but that may have been her fault instead of the camera's.
I've posted some photos recently in the Ozarks forum that I took with my Sony if you want to look through those. I haven't had it very long so any old pictures were with different camera. I can't remember what kind it was but it had to be replaced after our kitchen fire.

I have a Kodak easyshare z812 Is and I love it is is b.2 mp and it has a 12x zoom. Not too good at fireworks pics but it the rest it does great.

Paula

I have a Canon PowerShot S2IS that I DID like. I've been on 2 mission trips this year. During both of them my camera malfunctioned. It's not even 1 1/2 years old but now needs to be expensively repaired or replaced. I talked with Canon today and they are offering me a Rebel xti for a replacement but not for free. It will be at a good price though.