Best Standard Point and Shoot Digital Cameras - 1 to 215 Images Battery Life, 0 to 5 Megapixel Resolution, Lens Cap Included Accessories

'the menus are easy to navigate.'

'sharp, vivid images'

'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'

'The 1.8-inch LCD is sharp'

'The Kodak EasyShare LS743 is capable of 10x total zoom'

'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.'