Re: Digital Cameras
 

I've had an Olympus, Nikon, and Canon digital camera (all top of the consumer line at one point in time). There are a whole bunch of things to look for other than picture quality and size in digital cameras and here are a few things I have come across. While my Olympus was the cheapest camera of them all, it had two things I really loved. It used double-a batteries so that I could pop into just about any store and get my camera going again. It was also a Mass USB Storage Device. That means the camera's media card was mounted and appeared as a drive in Windows. It worked on every computer and operating system I ever had. The Nikon used a standard (but expensive) camera battery but wasn't Mass USB. My newest Canon neither has regular batteries nor is it a Mass USB device. While those two things seem like trivial little details, I really miss the features on that Olympus on my Canon. It really makes a difference with usability of the camera. You should definitely handle both the cameras before you choose one. Some cameras feel really cheap and are a bit awkward to use and others are built really solid with a great layout.