Top 3 Budget Digicams of 2006

2006 was an amazing year for technology in general. Gadgets that was considered to be premium a year back have become household names. Even in cameras, where the 5 to 6 megapixel range was considered as high-end, are now in the starter-level range.

Speaking at starter level, let's take a look at our choice of three cameras that gave the best bang for your buck this year. Starting with the —

Second Runner-Up

Kodak Easyshare C663
The Kodak C663 is a great option for someone who's looking for minimum fuss, and is more concerned with getting respectable quality without having to jump through a whole series of option. It has a 6 megapixel camera resolution along with 3x optical zoom, which is quite a handful for a starter-level camera.

The C663 has landed in our top 3 budget cameras of the year purely because of it's simplistic, yet dependable performance; namely—fast shot-to-shot time, decent edg-to-edge sharpness for a camera of this price range and the perfectly saturated colors it produces on your images.

If you think this all this sounds good, wait till you check out our first runner-up.