"David J Taylor" wrote in message
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rosenb37 wrote:
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I am curious what some of you would recommend and why? If you can give
good reasons (rather than one like the guy at Best Buy who recommended
the Canon S1 IS as being great and the lack of 4mp won't matter - BS!)
this would be very helpful - thanks!

Having seen some 8 x 10s from a 3.3MP Nikon Coolpix 990 recently I would
ask why you consider the advice bad? If it fits your budget, the S1 IS is
a nice little camera with good movies (if that matters) and an image
stabilised zoom (which certainly /does/ matter if you want 10X zoom).

David



I just joined the group. Lots of good discussion here. I thought I'd chime
in. I have a 3.1 MP Olympus C3020 and I have managed some good 8 x 10s off
it as well. My experience when I went looking is that the resulting picture
is a function of both the number of megapixels AND the camera's optics (with
a small nod to the processor). I have seen 2.0 MP cameras that will blow
the doors off some 5 MP cameras, simply due to optics. One of the best
all-round cameras I've ever seen for point-and-shoot images is our old
office Kodak DC280. Heavy, bulky, ate batteries etc and definitely not a
modern digicam, but awesome saturation and VERY clear images for a 2.0 MP
camera. It's a corollary to 35 mm film. A $10 point-and shoot and a $5,000
SLR both use 35mm film, but the results vary a bit!

Here's a good website for comparing cameras with a reasonably scientific
approach to the comparison images. There are a LOT of cameras the

http://www.imaging-resource.com/

Click on the "compare sample images" option on the left side and go to it!

Good luck.

Jeff
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