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Where to shop for digital cameras on Black Friday

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By Molly McLaughlin on November 18, 2011 in

digital camera

As predicted, many of the digital cameras on offer this Black Friday are either no name brands or just poor cameras overall. However, this year a few retailers have stepped up and are offering deals on quality cameras from Canon and Sony. Here's a roundup of where to go and what to buy on Black Friday.

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Camera? Printer? Polaroid's PoGo Instant Digital Camera is both

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By Amy Livingston on November 28, 2010 in

Polaroid PoGo Instant Camera

For years, the name Polaroid has been synonymous with the instant-print camera. The classic Polaroid camera’s chief selling point wasn’t picture quality but the fun of printing out your snapshot instantly and watching it develop before your eyes. A couple years back, Polaroid made its first attempt at bringing that experience into the digital age with the introduction of the PoGo Instant Mobile Printer, a pocket-sized snapshot printer that could print photos from a digital camera and from many -- though not all -- Bluetooth-enabled phones. We touch upon the PoGo printer in our report on photo printers. Now Polaroid has gone one step better with the Pogo Instant Digital Camera, a camera and printer in one.

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Your child's first digital camera

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By Molly McLaughlin on June 27, 2010 in

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Kids tend to want what their parents have, whether it be their keys or their gadgets. Tots who like to snap photos can have fun with a toy camera like the Fisher Price Kid-Tough digital camera, but they'll eventually grow out of that and want a "real" camera like mom and dad. You can find solid digital cameras for under $150 with basic features and loads of automatic settings that make taking photos and sharing them online a snap. These budget-friendly cameras are ideal for first-time buyers and kids.

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Cheap digital cameras are not created equal

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By Molly McLaughlin on January 3, 2010 in

Kodak EasyShare M381

Since we debuted our cheap-digital-camera report in August, we've come across a number of sub-$200 cameras, both good and bad. So if you didn't get the digital camera you craved over the holidays this year, you'll be glad to know you don't have to spend much to buy one yourself. Of course, the cheapest of cheap cameras tend to be just that -- poorly constructed, feature starved and just not very good at what cameras do: taking pictures.

Our cheap digital camera report names three Canon point-and-shoots as the top picks, but we've since found models from Kodak, Nikon and Sony that are viable alternatives. (Those same companies also make some duds.)

Here's what to buy and what to avoid.

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