...a little little little advice. a brand one... Canon is doing wonderful things atm (look for the Powershot s40), Nikon is out with the Coolpix 5700 that is a really nice camera with outstanding results. Don't even look for an Olympus. Has wonderful lenses but the Smart Media Support is out of time and really fragile. (and is limited to 256MB anyway...) For the supports... prefer compact flash (CF) equipped camera, if you can, and a cheap buy could be a IBM microdrive (a little HD that is CF compatible) if the camera you choose supports it. the 1GB one is costly and fragile, but the 320MB and the 512MB ones are excellent.