I am looking for the best digital camera resolution, the best quality phtos, the most similar to the traditional photos. Can you help me in try to find the best digital camera in hight quality resolution. Best Regards

-- Alberto del Pedregal (alberped@entelchile.net), July 08, 2000

Answers

How much are you willing to spend? Pro Level cameras can set you back several thousand dollars. I think those are around 6mega pixels, but the sub pro level is catching up and still managing to stay below 2 grand.

-- David Erskine (davide@netquest.com), July 09, 2000.

There is more to it than simply "the best" or "the fastest" or "has the best output quality". Why not give us all an idea of what you want to do with the camera, family pics, product shots, landscapes, wildlife, pro work, etc. and we'll all give our two cents. [heck, you probably won't be able to shut us up... :-) ]

For a nicely built unit with 3.3 megapixels, 3X zoom lens, USB, a bunch of preset modes in the automatic mode, and a very nice feature set have a look at the Toshiba PDR-M70. It's cheaper than the Nikon & Oly alternatives and has similar features. About the only thing it seems to be missing are an uncompressed Tif or raw mode(if you MUST have one? The FINE & Normal Jpeg modes seem fine to me -I hardly ever use Fine.) and a full manual focus mode.(It does have both aperture and shutter priority modes for a good measure of creative control, but uses autofocus in all modes) Definitely worth a look!

This is the most impressive camera Toshiba has produced to date, and is well poised to do battle with the big boys like Nikon & Oly.

Good Luck.

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@surferz.net), July 11, 2000.

I could say the same about the Sony DSC S70 as the reply above. However as he stated the Tif file format in the Sony takes 9 meg, and takes 43 seconds to save to the card as opposed to a few seconds at the highest resolution. None of these cameras is going to give you 16x20s as good as film, or that you can print for the same price, but for snapshots they are great. the Sony also offers emailable video in three formats with sound......the Nikon doesn't. Image, the Sony beats everything out there with the possible exception of the D-1 Nikon. The 990 Nikon is almost a dead heat though..it is $200 more.

-- Richard Katris (chanan@sprynet.com), July 11, 2000.

If you can wait a few more months, you might want to do some homework on Canon's D30....very nice features to be found on this model. Its price point is around $3500.00

-- Sue Bald (destiny3@ix.netcom.com), July 14, 2000.