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I'm in the market for a new Digital Camera, looking in the £200 - £300 range. I fancy this Kodak Z650 (10x Optical Zoom, 6 Megapixel), if anyone has recommendations for similar cameras I'm interested to know. The aperture/shutter/manual priority are essential.

But more importantly, can anyone recommend a decent UK retailer?

http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/kodak-kodak_z650-digital_camera-1-cam2.htm

Batvink, I have a camera just like that except it's a 4meg model. Truly awesome camera, however there are a couple things you should know if you don't know them already:

One thing is that when in video record mode, if you are recording the zoom is disabled. If you stop recording, you can zoom again, but you can't use it while it's actually recording video. Also in video mode, if your scene is quite, the video will pick up the sound of the focus servos twitching.

The other thing is that in full manual mode, you cannot manually focus. As a workaround, you can set the focus sensor area in the menu, and "trick" the focus by centering on an object at the desired distance, then holding the shutter button halfway down until you get a focus lock, then moving the camera to your target area, then fully pressing the shutter button.

But otherwise, it really is a great camera. If you get it, be sure to get a huge memstick for it, the internal memory is small.

Thanks, SirFire, good to know. I don't use video on a digital camera and I wish they'd spend the effort on more features for still pictures!

My photography goes back to the good old days of SLRs with 35mm film. I'm used to using tricks like focus-locking so that won't be an issue for me either.

Thanks again!

FujiFilm do pretty good digital cameras - quite reasonable too.