hey guys my mom is planning to buy a digital camera and her budget is $250 or under, so I was wondering what is the best one we can get for that price?

[Garrett]

Not being funny but is that $250 or £250?

[hornydragon]

I just got a canon Ixus i for xmas, not the best PQ in the land but small light and really easy to use!

[Stuart Wright]

Look at a Nikon 2100 as 1 option.

[DJW]

If we're talking £'s try stretching a bit to a Minolta Z1......10 x optical zoom

[Garrett]

I Have been looking into digital cameras myself and for £261 here (just above your price) it seem the Canon A80 is a good model although only 3 * zoom, But is 3.9 mega pixels.

Review here.

[seany]

The A80 is the dogs, and you can buy a telephoto lense for it

im talking about US DOLLARS guys hehe

[dtsrules]

Maybe you need to ask on a US site then.

[Rob.Screene]

I recently bought a Canon A70 for about £240 from amazon.co.uk, within a few quid of the cheapest net price I could find.

Relatively fast auto-focus, relatively fast 1/2 per sec cycle time and a very fast 2fps burst mode. Priority (semi-manual) and Portrait modes work very well for photographing our nipper in various lighting. Incredible battery life of about 300+ shots with flash.

640x480 15fps MJPEG progressive video and audio is a nice bonus for taking several up to 30secs moving clips.

cheers,
Rob.