Michelle- No problem. I thought about asking Fuji technical but I figured that would be useless since they came up with that blurb which I pasted above. BTW-How is the Dimage repair going? Daveh- You know that is what I was thinking they were doing. However I was not too sure. On the Fuji site they mention the special lense and it almost seems like they are doing some sort of interpolation then they say they have a resolution of 2832 x 2128 but at the same time they say it captures at an effective resolution of 3.1megapixel. IF they are interpolating I can buy software which functions as good. Of course the total digital zoom of 24X, and a optical zoom of 6 is nothing to sneeze at either. Hmmm. What to do. What to do. I am planning on taking a vacation in a couple of weeks so a nice camera would be a plus. On the otherhand if I decide to simply save my money. I can always use my Pentax auto everything with 38-105 zoom, or the Sony 10X zoom. I just thought if I was considering getting a newer camera. Now would be a good time. Bsteph