[Lisa:]
Need help purchasing equipment
My sister is making a trip to Asia -India etc.
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You can find a "Digital Camera Advisor" at
http://www.myproductadvisor.com/mpa/...nputSummary.do

My own suggestion for the user profile of your sister would be a Konica
Minolta Dimage Z10, with its 3.2 megapixels, 8x optical zoom, AA
batteries, a pretty good image quality, and plenty of features in exchange
for a more than attractive price.

As to memory storage, internet cafés in most touristic places in India can
burn for cheap a CD out of a memory card, thus leaving the latter free to
take more photos. Anyway, one or more big capacity memory cards (256MB or
more) are advisable.

Voltage in India is 220V (see also
http://www.world-of-islands.com/Info...voltage_en.htm for voltages
and plugs). If the equipment is 110V, one definitely needs a converter.
Powercuts are frequent in some places there, whereby a fast battery
recharger may prove convenient.

J.S.Pitanga