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ZX5chica,Nov 10 2006, 08:03 AM Wrote:Digital SLR's can be upwards of 2000$, depending on what you are looking for, however you can get them for about 1500$

If you're looking for a good starter camera, or you want to try a small point and shoot, the one that I picked up a few months ago is great. The Olympus stylus 700. It's small, weather-proof, has the anti-vibration and it's 7.0 mp.

If you wanted a nice beefy camera, but aren't willing to get into SLR digital just yet, my brothers Canon S3 is a nice choice, and it's much less than a digital SLR. In terms of optical zoom, I know he's getting something like 12x, and then there's the digital zoom on top of that.
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Digital Zoom is useless. If you've got a computer and photo editing software you've got digital zoom with the magnifying glass. All it does is blow up a section of the picture it will not add more pixels. So it becomes distorted. Optical zoom all the way. Or go DSLR, where you can change out the lenses for more zoom.