Need a recommendation for easy to use P&S

Rob-F

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My wife wants to buy a camera for her university department. It should be something easy to figure out intuitively: they are philosophers, not photographers. So, I'm thinking, Good quality, extreme high ISO not required, very high pixel count not required; minimal menus and sub-menus. They will be used to post to the web, and to post pictures on the bulletin board. They will be no more than 8.5 x 11. Something easy to use and handle, something smart, but non-photo-savvy PhDs can figure out without studying a manual. I'm thinking of Fujifilm, or Panasonic, or Canon (brands I know of); but one of you may know of something better. Price up to $200. It doesn't need to be tiny. Something big enough to hang onto would probably be better.

Any specific recommendations by brand and model?
 
Look at the Canon PowerShot Elph 300HS. 12.1 megapixels, 24-120mm lens, simple to use, starts at around $170. Go to imaging-resource.com and read their review of it.

Andy
 
Any Canon towards the top of your pricelimit would be my suggestion. The do fairly well IMO. Set it to iAuto - or whatever it is called - and they don't have to fiddle with menus.
 
Look at the Canon PowerShot Elph 300HS. 12.1 megapixels, 24-120mm lens, simple to use, starts at around $170. Go to imaging-resource.com and read their review of it.

Andy

. . . and that's exactly what she bought, Andy, on your recommendation. She found it easy and intuitive to use. Not only that, it was on sale at Best Buy for just $140.00.

Thanks, Andy, and thanks to all who responded.
 
Awesome! Glad to be of help. I played with one of those in the store some time ago and realized that it's sort of like a PowerShot S100 'Lite'! A great little camera with an excellent sensor, all at a great price. Hope she has a lot of fun with it.

Andy
 
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