Digital Camera for Mom & Dad

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

Hi!
We are surprising my mom with a disney cruise for her 60th birthday...it will also be my dads 65th...but he is paying for mom to go on the cruise...
For Xmas I would like to get them a digital point and shoot. They are still in the poloroid ages!
I'm looking form something with good resolution, easy AND I STRESS EASY! to use and of course relatively cheap.
Can anyone offer up some suggestions? I've tried reading reviews online and they sound like elementary kids wrote them. I don't know what to believe.
Thanks for the help!

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

Bump!

 

[Mckymousefn]

I sent you a private messege with a link.

 

[My2Girls66]

We have a few small p&s Nikons and Canons that are very easy to use and take nice pictures. Specifically a Nikon Coolpix L6, Coolpix 4600, a Canon A540and an A560. Our Canons seem to have less shutter lag. We get nice photos out of all 4 of them. 2 years ago I bought my dad a Nikon P2- he likes it a lot.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Just about any point and shoot is easy. Just turn it on. Push the button. You've got a picture.

The hard part is what happens next. Getting it from the camera to the computer, Internet, and printer is where the complications are.

My parents got a Canon S1 (since replaced by the S2, S3, and S5 - no S4, that wouldn't be lucky). They seem happy with it. I imagine the same would be true for lots of other cameras.

Coming from film, they'll love that they can take a lot of shots. They'll love seeing the results. They'll hate the shutter lag.

I'd focus less on the camera choice and more on the process of how they are going to get their pictures out of the camera and to the people they want to share them with.

 

[My2Girls66]

Just about any point and shoot is easy. Just turn it on. Push the button. You've got a picture.

The hard part is what happens next. Getting it from the camera to the computer, Internet, and printer is where the complications are.

My parents got a Canon S1 (since replaced by the S2, S3, and S5 - no S4, that wouldn't be lucky). They seem happy with it. I imagine the same would be true for lots of other cameras.

Coming from film, they'll love that they can take a lot of shots. They'll love seeing the results. They'll hate the shutter lag.

I'd focus less on the camera choice and more on the process of how they are going to get their pictures out of the camera and to the people they want to share them with.

My dad and my father in law have that one figured out. They give/send their memory cards and video tapes to me!
My father in law, one time, sent me his camera, cards and all its accessories so I could make a disc of his vacation photos for him. He is in Va.- I'm in NH.
My dad is in Ct, so I see him often enough so he can give me his memory cards and mini-dv tapes.

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

We have a few small p&s Nikons and Canons that are very easy to use and take nice pictures. Specifically a Nikon Coolpix L6, Coolpix 4600, a Canon A540and an A560. Our Canons seem to have less shutter lag. We get nice photos out of all 4 of them. 2 years ago I bought my dad a Nikon P2- he likes it a lot.

We had a nikon coolpix...but it was slow as heck! We have a canon p & s and love it. My BF and I upgrading to SLR...I took a photo class and he insisted that I have a digital SLR... who am I to complain!!!

Mark,
You make a really good point about how they are going to get their photos. That can be just as much of an issue...thanks for the heads up!

Michele
Thanks for the link...I didn't think about sony!