Thanks, Scott. Putting everything else aside, and Fuji was not an
issue, what camera in the $100 + range would you buy? Do you know of
this web site which rates cameras?
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digi...0_reviews.html
Also, what do you think of the Canon A460 that they have reviewed?
Many thanks, Jack



On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:16:12 -1000, Scott W
wrote:

Jack wrote:
Based on a recommendation on this newsgroup 3 years ago, I bought a
refurbished Fuji Finepix 2600Z from Geek.com. It has been a great
camera but recently broke beyond repair. That camera was only a 2
megapix but we shot all our pictures at the 1 megapix and were very
satisfied. I see that the state-of-the-art has advanced
significantly. However, I don't anticipate needing anything with the
very large resolution now available. I would expect that we would
shoot all our pictures at 2 megapix or less. We seldom print a
picture. We just view them on the computer. Since we have the
Finepix software for managing our pictures and, also, for the
convenience of using AA batteries(which we already have) we were
thinking about buying another refurbished Fuji of the A500 to A700
series. These cameras are available from $70-$100.

I would appreciate any thoughts about this idea and any
recommendations for other cameras that, in that price range, are
better quality. Thanks for any help.

You might want to look here
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_..._a500_pg5.html

I did not find a review of the A700, but here is a bit of data on it
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06091201fujia700.asp

Both camera suffer from really low resolution movie mode, which might
not matter to you. One of the things that I like about a point and shoot
camera is the movie mode, which in many of the current camera is getting
very good.

Other then resolution you also want to look into the shutter lag time, a
slow camera can be a pain to deal with, I know I have had my fair share
of them in the past.

Scott