Best Digital Cameras - 1 to 215 Images Battery Life, 1 to 1.7 in. LCD Screen Size, 4 x AA Batteries Included Accessories

'The DiMAGE Z3's newly developed GT APO lens offers strikingly clear, high-contrast, high-resolution images thanks to Konica Minolta's G lens optical technology.'

'flexible exposure control'

'strong enthusiast-oriented feature set.'

'Designed to resemble a scaled-down SLR camera, the Canon PowerShot S1 IS brings together a lot of advanced features--including the ability to captures video at up to 640-by-480 pixels and 30 frames-per-second with 22-KHz 16-bit sound--for its $499 price tag.'

'perfect camera.'

'Bottom Line: This is a decent-performing 4-megapixel superzoom camera that is easy to handle and has a nice burst mode.'

'experienced shutterbugs will enjoy manual aperture, shutter, and exposure controls.'

'This software, as well as the camera are compatible with Mac OS X and Windows XP.'

'The manual includes a lot of information on setting up and using the camera, and has a good table of contents'

'But for small instructional videos, the silent 15 frames per second AVI is sufficient for my needs.'