Comments on: Where to find a cheap digital camera?

Question: Where to find a cheap digital camera?

ackptui — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:52:16 -0800

Where to find a cheap digital camera? I want to sell some accumulated crapola on eBay, while keeping the overhead as low as possible.

I am not a camera person, and likely would not use it much outside of this. I'd like to find a digital camera that would produce useable results for this, at the lowest cost possible, and also keep the likelyhood of getting scammed low. I want to at least stay above the level of the kind of thing given away free as a premium, and could surely cope with obsolete technology, as long as its not too far gone. Any ideas?

By: raster

raster — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:26:40 -0800

Define cheap... I saw a new Argus 3640 for $70 recently at the local consumer electronics store. Not a great camera I'm sure, but probably decent for les than $100 camera.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:30:19 -0800

Well, your _cheapest_ route is just to buy a disposable film camera, and then have the developed photos delivered to you on CD. If you can't have that turned around in just an hour, you can definitely get them back in a day from just about any photo outlet.

By: punkfloyd

punkfloyd — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:32:16 -0800

Two words: pawn shop

By: wonderwisdom

wonderwisdom — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:33:17 -0800

I have a excellent Casio 1.0 MP camera I can sell you for $30 plus $5 shipping. I will not scam you. My email is dwisdom AT g mail dot com. I believe I have the original box and all relevant software/cables. Email me and I will send you the specs.

OR:

Smartbargains.com (I've bought $200 worth of Stereo equipment from them - great seller) has a decent 2.0 Megapixel Fuji Finepix for $89... I used this camera for a year, and it is great. Easy to use, great pictures, uses SmartMedia cards, which are crazy cheap, as they are being phased out.

I pulled the rest of the below suggestions using a Froogle search. I searched for digital cameras from $0-$100:

Here's a super basic Vivitar 1.3 MP camera for $39.88...

If you don't mind auctions... Here is a 2.0 MP Kodak EasyShare for $60 (auction)...

OR you can do the whole disposable Kodak camera with digital pictures on a CD thing, which will cost you about $20 per camera with development.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:35:11 -0800

Try eBay :) and cnet.com for reviews.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:59:31 -0800

A scanner works well for anything scanner size (and takes much better close-ups than my Pencam Mega Mini, unless I just don't know how to use it)...

By: hootch

hootch — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:58:20 -0800

Computergeeks.com has some new and refurbished cameras on the cheap. New 3.2 MP camera for $64.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:26:57 -0800

By one of those $20 webcams and capture the pictures straight to your PC. They produce reasonable results with decent lighting and you don't have to worry about transferring them.

By: tpl1212

tpl1212 — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:27:13 -0800

I keep my eyes on these sites for such prices/deals:
- DealNews
- Hot Dealz Club
- TechBargains

By: cactus

cactus — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:08:37 -0800

If you're unscrupulous, you could buy a digital camera at Fry's or some other store which everyone loves to hate and which has forgiving return policies, use it for this project, and return it the following week.

You might hate yourself in the morning, though.

By: Coffeemate

Coffeemate — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:25:14 -0800

Caution: cactus' idea could work, but check the store's return policy before you do it. Many stores charge a restocking fee on digital cameras so that people won't "rent" them for a wedding, etc.

By: omnidrew

omnidrew — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:16:27 -0800

If you still have a floppy drive, pick up a Sony Mavica on ebay. Most of the older ones take 640x480 pix only, but you do not need anything more than that. Tho it's gathering dust now, I got a lot of use out of my FD-71 (10x optical zoom) back in the day. Mavica fan site.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:04:09 -0800

Yep, pawn shop, absolutely.

I also like the Mavica from eBay option.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:25:18 -0800

Creative Cameras -- I've been through two of them, and they are great for the price (under $100).