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[alexseanchai]

Guess what I just discovered?

All that stuff about setting the aperture and the shutter speed that my photography teacher was talking about yesterday? I can't do it. Not with my Nikon Coolpix L24. Nice of the people in the Amazon review section to mention that the effing camera HAS NO MANUAL MODE.

I can borrow my little sister's camera for now, it does have a manual mode, but she doesn't know where the user manual is and she claims she can't explain things well and I don't know what type of camera it is (other than Panasonic) so I can't Google for the manual, which is gonna make it hard to learn how to use the manual mode on her camera. And it's not an indefinite loan; photography is one of her passions and she's gonna want the camera back sooner than later.

So. What good, cheap camera with a manual mode would you recommend I buy? Cheap trumps good, unfortunately.

Comments

[tptigger]

I havea Canon PowerShot A530. It has a manual mode, is five years old, and has held up pretty well. (Keep it in a case though, I was carrying one around in my purse for awhile and something broke off--thankfully it was new enough that Target exchanged it.)
Amazon has a bunch of used/new ones: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B000EMU888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314406697&sr=8-1
STarting at <$90, not sure what the definition of "cheap" is.

[alexseanchai]

Under a hundred is a pretty good definition of 'cheap'. Thanks!