Help - need super cheap, super lightweight digital camera!

dodgersmom
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:48:14 +0000

It needs to be inexpensive (under $50 or thereabouts) and super lightweight - every ounce counts! Will be used for one month only, during a mountaineering trek in the High Sierras.

I figured we’d just get a couple of old-fashioned disposable cameras . . . but they actually weighed quite a bit more than the digitals we looked at, so now I have no clue.

We found a “Digital Concepts” camera for under $20 . . . but looking at the reviews on Amazon, it looks like it’s a waste of money even at that price - crappy pictures and a pain in the [blank] to use. It would be too bad to take pictures during the trip, only to discover later they’re so awful that we can’t see anything.

And I should probably mention that the trip leaves in just over a week, so something we could pick up at Walmart or the local Rite-Aid would be a big help.

So, any suggestions?