Camera Advice
Our camera has finally died (lesson learned: if you’re going to pick a fight with a mountain, with only a snowboard for defense, don’t bring your camera in your front pocket), and we need a new one. In fact, you need us to have a camera so we can keep showing you pictures from Thailand, right?
So for all you digital camera aficionados out there, we’d like some advice. Our priorities are physical size (as small as possible) and price (as cheap as possible), with secondary priorities being battery life (as long as possible, or rechargeable) and a decent zoom (3x should be fine). It also needs to support SmartMedia cards (since we already have a rather large one).
Stuff like Megapixels and movie mode are not that important - not worth paying extra money for anyway (our current camera has had 2.1 Megapixels, and it was more than we needed). Any advice you have, or websites you can point us to, will be very helpful.
I just realized that if we got a rechargeable camera, there would have to be a charger compatible with Thailand’s 220-volt system (or we’d have to have a 110-to-220 converter). That’s something to think about too.
Consider buying in Thailand or Hong Kong….I think the prices are better and you should be able to get adapters for both 220 & 110
I just checked. My mom got a digital camera about a year ago while in Hong Kong and it came with a 220 adapter and a 110 adapter.