Cheap camera for grandson

[greenrook]

My daughter-in-law suggests I get her son a cheap digi camera with SD cards for one of his Christmas gifts and says I'm not to spend more than �30. I'm only dimly aware of what a digi camera is, and what the hell are SD cards? So where do I buy this article please.

[oldwoman]

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servl et/ArgosBrowseLister?storeId=10001&catalogId=1 0001&zone=&giftFinder=&langId=-1&attrValue_0=& attrValue_1=&attrValue_2=&attrValue_3=&attrVal ue_4=&priceFrom=&priceTo=&attrName_0=&attrName _1=&attrName_2=&attrName_3=&attrName_4=&TOTrai l=&categoryId=42472&Trail=C%24cip%3D42463%3EC% 24cip%3D42472&previousperPage=10&perPage=10&cu rrPage=1&sortBy=2&x=7&y=11 This Vivitar might be alright.

[milly143]

Try Tesco. They have a great range of electrical products and I know they have cheaper digital cameras. an SD card is just a memory card, you should get a small capacity card with any camera and can buy bigger ones seperately if you need one.

[greenrook]

Many thanks to you both. We have Argos and a Tesco Extra not too far away so we should be able to manage something. Sorry to be so thick, but if you Google these queries you get such a plethora of information you can be all night sorting it out, and you'll have gathered I'm more or less stuck in the Box Brownie era, photography-wise

[vehelpfulguy]

Simple explanation of a digital camera.

As you probably know, the world is going digital (computers, TVs, phones, radios etc).

Digital is the format used to store information by computers.

Old cameras that used film had paper in the back that reacted to light, the more light the more reaction. The paper became a negative that was then printed to become a photo.

With a digital camera it has a very small computer in the back that reacts to light instead of film.

Once it has "composed" the picture it saves it as a digital image, and it saves it on a memory card.

Once you have taken say 20 pictures they are all stored on the memory card.

You can then copy the pictures from the memory card to your computer.

Once on the computer you can look at them, print them, manipulate the pictures in various ways and so on.

Once they are on the computer you can delete them from the camera's memory card and start filling it up again.

Generally digital camera are easy to use.

If you buy your grandson one for Xmas ask him to show you how it works and how you get images from the camera to the computer.

[greenrook]

Thanks again people, I bought the Vivitar from Argos, about 30 quid and does astonishing things. Thanks for the info, vehelpful. I think I'm beyond redemption though, where the march of technology's concerned. And after all I DO have lots of willing young family members who are happy to come round and sort Grandad out. Now if I can only extend this to hedge and lawn cutting.......