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Bluespirit ([personal profile] bluespirit) wrote2008-11-24 06:32 pm
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Camera help please?

I want to buy my Mom a digital camera for Christmas.
It needs to be slimline, have a large viewfinder/display & be very, very simple to use.
My Mom is seventy & a bit of a techno-phobe but she's seen our Canon Ixus 75 & really likes it.
I would like to get her something similar in design but with fewer functions & settings. I mean she's never going to take a video or do macro photography or anything like that. She just wants to be able to point it & press the button - taking pictures on holiday & at family gatherings (& of Buddy, of course!)
Can anyone recommend anything please?
I'm looking to spend around £100.
Thanks, folks!

[identity profile] kosmikdawg.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I have several digital cameras but none fit into the category you're looking for. Kodak makes relatively simple point n' shoot cameras and the Olympus Stylus series is relatively uncomplicated and slim. My father, who is 83, recently purchased a Sony DSC-W170...but it has all the bells and whistles. Although, take a look at the Sony DSC-W120.

[identity profile] bluespirit-star.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Great! I've got several suggestions now, thank you - & I'll research them all. Though my Mom is definitely not a bells & whistles kind of person! LOL