I'm on my third digital camera and believe that only professionals need to spend the big bucks for cameras. One thing that is pretty central to all lower priced camera's is the 3X digital zoom. This allows close up pics when you are near your subject and can bring things farther away a bit closer. I have just purchased my 3rd Fugi because it is the only one with 4X zoom among those closest to it in cost ($150 at Best Buy). Most cameras now have 7 or 8 mega pixels so that is pretty much a wash. FYI, once you get over about 5 mp you can blow your pics up to 8x10. 7 or 8 and you can get a pretty clear poster size. Hope this helps. Peggy On Dec 28, 2007 12:22 PM, jsdcbrown@juno.com <jsdcbrown@juno.com> wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions on obtaining maps of Clearfield and Center > Counties. > > New subject, new questions; > I'm considering a digital camera. > Primary use would be > Casual pictures of people > Structures and scenery > Documents > I'm not really a camera buff so I guess you wold call me a "point & > shoot" person. > I would appreciate any comments, but specifically, the best type of > battery, flash range - I have seen some pictures that don't appear to have > very much range, what is a good zoom range, Are pictures easy to down load > and print and what quality paper to use to get reasonably good picture > fidelity > If you have any thoughts on specific makes and models that would be > appreciated also > > Thanks > > Don Brown > _____________________________________________________________ > Orchard Bank MasterCard > Get your credit on track with an Orchard Bank MasterCard > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2121/fc/JKFkuJi7ElGOkmUor9SxYRm4OzdMWHqSGNomIMiUolM2iF24eaLLSR/ > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Peggy "Many anthologies of religion list Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, and Christ as founders of religion. Jesus Christ is not the founder of any religion. He died on a cross for the sins of the world. He is the Savior and that is why we are not saved by religion; we are saved by Christ."