For people who are not too particular about their photos, the Aigo DC- V1018 is the camera you might be interested in. It sells for less than $200 and you can even find big discounts on the internet that lets you purchase this camera even below $100. Of course, with the given price, you have to sacrifice the quality of the photos a little bit.
This camera belongs to the compact type ones. It has a resolution of 10 megapixels with a maximum optical zoom of 7x. It is a waterproof and shockproof camera so you can take it to the beach with you and not worry about it getting wet and being damaged. The Aigo DC- V1018 is available in silver and gray colors only. It is manufactured in Beijing China.
This camera has 2.7 LCD screen built in it. It helps you choose from the menu effortlessly and it lets you review the photos and the videos you just recorded. It has a maximum of 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom. It seems like this zoom capacity is standard among Aigo digital cameras. It has a capacity of 10cm infinity for the wide lens and 60cm infinity for telelens in terms of focus range. As for the micro, the wide lens is at 0.1m up to 0.7m while the telelens is at 0.35m up to 0.7m.
For the spot meter, you have three options namely the matrix metering, single spot metering and evaluative metering. You can fiddle with these and see the effect on the photos but those who are first time camera users are unlikely to get used to using such advance technique. Speaking of options, you also have a choice of image size for the Aigo DC- V1018. You can have your photos taken in VGA, 2 megapixel, 2.1 megapixel, 3 megapixel, 5 megapixel, 8 megapixel, 8.9 megapixel and 10 megapixel depending on your needs. The white balance is available in auto, cloudy, daylight, lamp and fluorescent.
There are 18 scene modes available for Aigo DC- V1018. You can pick from manual, automatic, backlight, sunset, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait, snow, fireworks, children and pets, beach, museums, meetings, sports, plant, text, aquarium and text. You can also record audio and video with this device. The dimension of the video is at 640 x 480 in 30 fps. The three special functions noteworthy here are the smile shutter, red eye correction and face detection.