I saw this AD in the newspaper ..

there is this BENQ Digital Camera for 49 rials.

specification:

5 mega pixel (interpolated) with CCD technology

max resouloution - 2560x1920

1.6 color TFT LCD

4X Digital Zoom

16 MB memory built in
SD/MMC expandable


how do you find this offer, reasonable?

5.0 MP is veeeeery good quality...

but without optical zoom...hmmm.. i dont know

but 49 rials is veeery cheap for a 5.0 MP

my friend bought a 3.2 MP camera couple of weeks ago for 70 rials...

exactly!! this is why I thought this offer is good,
but dont know about BENQ .. never heard of this brand before ..

16 MB memory built in
SD/MMC expandable

Make sure that you can buy additional memory. If not this may not be that good of deal.

16mb will limit you to just a few pics at high resolution.

BENQ.... its a computer company... thts wht i can remember....

It's too cheap. An average 5 megapixel camera goes for at least 160 rials. This one is too cheap to be good. Besides it doesn't have an optical zoom. It can't be a good camera.

If all you want is a camera to take snapshots which you can upload and attach to email then you don't need 5mp. Plus you gotta remember that with this camera you can't zoom and get the detail of objects you want to take pictures of. Digital zoom is very grainy.

Ask the shop to give you a demonstration and look at the quality of the pics on a computer display. Don't accept just the demo they give you of the pics on camera.