Camera Help!!

[Kaw1000]

My Dad is 70 years old and I was wandering if any of you could help with finding him a good digital camera that is easy to use!! I'd like to find one that has the big screen on the back of it!!

                                                               Thanks!

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Kaw1000
My Dad is 70 years old and I was wandering if any of you could help with finding him a good digital camera that is easy to use!! I'd like to find one that has the big screen on the back of it!!

                                                               Thanks!

you can start reviewing at DP Review website:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/stats.asp

[Nilsen]

I could highly recomend the Nikon D50. Its not that expencive. On the flipside the display is not that big.

[Curval]

I have this one..love it

Just make sure the sound works.  The first one I got didn't have any sound, but they took it back and the new one worked fine.

The screen on the back is huge for the size of the camera.

[john9001]

don't get him the D50, much too complicated, the screen on the D50 does not show the shot you are about to take , it shows the shot you have just taken.  the D50 is a DSLR and a great camera (i have one) but not for your dad.

get him one like curval showed.

[Kaw1000]

Thanks for all your help!!

[Maverick]

If he's just going to do the casual snapshot thing look to a Kodak witht he dock so he can download the shots easily.

[eskimo2]

What Curval said.  
Canon makes some more expensive and less expensive PowerShot SD Elph models, any of them are great, fit into a pants pocket easily and are easy to use.  To download pictures you just plug the provided wire into the camera and USB port; it’s just as easy to use as a dock, takes up less room and costs less.  A downloading alternative is a cheap card reader.  Seriously, docks are a marketing ploy that makes an already incredibly simple task just as simple.  I’ve used Sony, Olympus, Vivitar, Oregon Scientific, Canon and Nikon digital cameras.  The first four take pictures, but are too pricey for their quality.  Canon and Nikon take fantastic pictures, are very reliable and easy to use.  Get him an Elph.

[SOB]

Provided he's able to handle the small size of the camera, I agree with Curval.  That model or the less expensive ones are great cameras and pretty simple to use, with a decent sized LCD screen.  I've got the SD200 and love it.  You might check out the other Canon PowerShot cameras like the A95 or that series, as they're bigger and probably easier to hold and navigate the buttons - they used to have smaller screens than the Elphs, but that may have changed.

[eagl]

Some of the new kodaks are a bit bigger than the regular flock of small digital cameras, but they have relatively large lenses which should give much better performance in low light or otherwise challenging situations.  They also have decent optical zoom.

Ignore "digital zoom" numbers.  They're worthless.  Optical zoom is the only zoom number that means anything.

Anything over 3mp is nice, over 4 mp is luxury, over 5mp is probably waste of money unless he's going to make very large prints or the camera has other features he can't do without.  But then he'd probably want a real camera like the Nikon D50/D70/D200 anyhow.