FOUND: Looking for obsolete (to you) medium size camera for granny to take family photos

[Dennis S]

My mom got a tiny Sony but it's too small for her to operate. She needs something with the hand grip. AA batteries and an optical viewfinder would be ideal but not absolutely necessary. Something y'all have put away that's several years old would be OK for her. Also, she would only use it for point and shoot - no special settings.

[Black]

Dennis, I have an Olympus VG-120 I won't be needing. Hard to tell if it's going to be "too tiny" though.

[Winston]

Film or digital? May sound like a dumb quesiton, but asking to make sure that using a digital camera and having to hook it up to a computer to download photos isn't a barrier. And it's a lot easier to find a film camera that has the features you describe, especially a decent sized viewfinder, unless you go for an SLR in digital.

Somewhere we've got a really old, early, simple, probably well under 2 megapixel, point and shoot that my father passed on to us. Don't think it even had a zoom. Would something that basic work? I imagine photo quality is marginal. But the shape is what you are looking for. The other old digital cameras we have are Canon Elph-sized, which is pretty small, with tiny viewfinders.

[Dennis S]

I finally did get her to go digital and she did OK wih a 2 MP Nikon I had laying around. But it's about shot. She got the little Sony DSC-W830 for Christmas and it's too small for her operate. She can do it, but it's frustrating for her.

[Dennis S]

Black wrote:
Dennis, I have an Olympus VG-120 I won't be needing. Hard to tell if it's going to be "too tiny" though.

It looks very similar. Hers is about 2" X 3.5".

[Winston]

Will see if I can find my dad's old camera. May also have one of the older "larger" Canon Elphs like an S200 or S230:
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Di...B00006LV79

I used a Canon S110 Elph, similar to the above, long past usual life as my main camera. The zoom switch finally broke. Loved it, but I can say the viewfinder is tiny, and it's not easy to use the small LCD (I always used the viewfinder, except for still shots in a dark location on a mount.)

[CJsNvrUrly]

How do you feel about a Canon PowerShot A610? It has a nice grip to it.
A610

[Dennis S]

CJsNvrUrly wrote:
How do you feel about a Canon PowerShot A610? It has a nice grip to it.
A610

Yes. That's what I had in mind, size wise.