On Oct 13, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:

> any others on good P&S cameras?

My wife and daughter like the "flat" nikons like the Coolpix S51.   
They store pretty much anywhere and the Li-ion battery stays charged  
forever.)  The camera shop claims that the recessed lenses in these  
prevent some of the major causes of damaging cameras (setting them  
face-down on the lens), and they're a big improvement in speed over  
the older nikons (both turn-on time and push-to-take time.)  They take  
nice pictures (you know, almost ALL of todays "good" (auto focus, auto- 
exposure) P&S cameras take pretty nice pictures compared to the  
"Instamatics" of my childhood.  Even disposables take pretty nice  
pictures!)

Personally, I don't like the absence of an optical viewfinder; with my  
aging eyes, I don't want to have to choose between seeing the screen  
and seeing the scene...

There are a whole bunch of "prosumer" P&S cameras that include  
features like shutter or aperature priority exposure someone mentioned  
without going to the complexity of a full SLR.  These have been coming  
down nicely in price, too.

BillW

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