Suggestions for a digital camera for gigs...?

You have to decide between how much you want to spend and what you want in photography. There are compact cameras available in the market in that price range for brands like Pentax, Fuji and Kodak and it will give good pictures for general photography.

If you are photography enthusiast, then you should consider Nikon D40 or D60 or Canon E1000

Good luck with that. The only two lenses that I use at gigs cost me more than $3000 and $2000 respectively. The camera was $5500.

To shoot at gigs (and get good results) you need a very fast lens, something that will perform well in low light as flash and strobes are generally frowned on, even if you are shooting at the band's request. I'll get there early, when they are setting up the lighting and meter all the stage positions, set WB etc.

For a low cost alternative you need to look at one of the P&S cameras that have a F2.8 or better zoom. Most of them are pretty noisy in low light so you aren't going to be blowing anything up to poster size. Even those cameras are well above e150. Maybe you might want to think about eBay and a second-hand P&S.

The Sony makes use of their very own proprietary memory. i might knock them basically for that. Fuji has been interior the movie/digital camera enterprise for years. Sony not so long, yet have been in digital photographs by using fact the early days of client digital photographs. some Fuji modes use XD, a competitor to SD and Sony's. The F100 makes use of SD or XD. Samsung may well be ok for primary photographs.

Its not the camera that makes low light shooting difficult, its the lens. For low light you need wide aperture lenses, its a simple as that, they're the only way to get reasonable shutter speeds in low light - unfortunately as they're not cheap.

Chris

hi,well as i said this too a lot of people ,i would tell you to go get a nikon coolpix.(L18) but they just took out the L20......they are at my EYES,one of the best cameras...you can take a look on the net:)i really think you would be happy with it:):)the L18 has 8 mega pixels.....:):)