Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:13:01 +0100, Gail Shaw sa dot com> 
> <"<initialsurname"@sentech> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Another year, another conference.
>>
>> I'm off to Denver on friday for just over a week for a SQL conference.
>> Baring in mind that I only have 2 days free (sat and sun) is there 
>> anything
>> that I have to see/visit in Denver? Anyone know of any good 
>> resteraurants?
>>
>> I'm contemplating picking up a digital camera while I'm there. I'll be 
>> able
>> to get far better for far less there than here, even with customs 
>> duty. I've
>> never owned a digital camera, still using my mother's old film one.
>>
>> What's a good make/model to look for? I'm not looking for professional
>> quality, just something that will take good photos with a minimum of 
>> set up
>> indoors or outdoors. Some amount of optical zoom is essential
> 
> Make that the third vote for Canon; 

And a fourth - I have a PowerShot A710 and it's a wonderful wee beastie. 
  6x optical zoom, good battery life, optical viewfinder (as Phil says, 
saves the juice), pretty good manual settings for a compact and the auto 
mode is also very intelligent. And it even claims to take a standard 
Canon lens via a neat little adaptor, although I haven't tried this yet...

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