Camera for a Newbie, please help.

[Lambo]

Only ever used a cheap shoot and point digital camera!. Now need to purchase a small camera to take some internal photo's of a friends guest house to send to their web designer for insertion to their website. Budget is VERY tight.

Sainsbury's have a camera sale at the moment and I am looking at a few of their cameras and have no idea which one to purchase. Please could someone give me some advise on (for the small budget) which of these will be easy to use and more importantly give me the best quality pictures;

I am not expecting to be able to produce outstanding results on any of these camera's as I am sure that i will need to spend a lot more money to achieve this!! But help to decide which one of these to get the better results would be VERY much appreciated.

Sony W630 (£69.99)
Fuji JZ200 (£49.00)
Fuji finepix T400 (£69.99)
Samsung ST66 (49.99)

Fuji finepix S2980 (79.99) (69.99 in local store)

 

[sep9001]

Hi Welcome to TP.

If you friend is going to use the photos to sell/rent I would suggest getting someone to take proper photos of the place. The issue with some of the cameras listed may be lighting issues if it is dark inside.

 

[gadgeteer]

How about ringing a local college and seeing if there are any students who would take this on as a challenge/paid job?

I'd hope that for £70 you could get a cheap photography student to take some decent photos using a proper DSLR. You'd get much better results than with a point & shoot.

 

[Teflon-Mike]

Inside photo's, the problem will be lighting and low light.
A point & press camera will set higher shutter and ISO speeds to avoid blue hand holding the camera, or use its on board flash.
The pictures are likely to be rather contrasty, the highting harsh and unflattering, and the images a bit 'niosy' and not be very flattering to the rooms.
A pro interior photographer, would take a lot of time to get good interior shots for a magazine or brochure; using a tripod to support the camera and allow longer exposure times, probably being very careful selecting the time of day, and even the weather outside to get the most flattering window light in the room, probably using reflectors to bounce more back into the picture, possibly using off-camera flash or light stands to get the best lighting.
90% of a photo is in the photographer's eye, 9% in thier know how how, 1% in the camera. A 'better' point and shoot camera, in this situation, is unlikely to make a very big difference.
Camera you have, a tripod, and lots of thought and or experimentation with lighting, is probably more likely to get you the better result you hope for. In fact... even the tripod's not essential, if you can find something convenient to support the camera still for an exposure, like a chair, table, book-case or something!