Buying digital camera.....need input

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I use an Olympus D-460 w/ a 32 meg Smart media card. At it's highest quality setting, it holds 73 pictures. It has a 3x optical zoom lens, and a 2x digital telephoto, so essentially you have a 6x zoom. It's only 1.3 Megapixels, which looks perfect up to a 6x8 print. I have printed 8x10's that looked great, but I give alot of the credit to the Epson photo printer. If you plan on printing pics any larger than that, get a higher MP count.

I bought mine for $299 a year and a half ago, and use it every day. I also bought a Ray-o-vac rechargeable battey charger at K-mart for $10, and 4 Energizer rechargeable AA batteries. I later discovered that the Energizer's suck, and bought a set of Ray-o-vac rechargeables, which last twice as long, and I use the Energizer's as back-ups.

Much of my stereo and video equipment is Sony, and I do like their quality, but my Grandfather always preached to me about Olympus cameras, which is the only reason I considered it. It was the best bang for the buck when I bought it.

Take care,
~Chris