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; one of the Powershot A series should  
do fine for a point'n'shooter. Reasonable size lens, with a nice big chip  
behind it; 4x optical zoom; runs off standard AA batteries, saves dragging  
a recharger around or coughing up for specialist batteries; good Auto  
features with enough specialist settings if you want to tinker; and the  
A5xx's aren't too bulky or heavy, but you can run up to the A6xx's or  
A7xx's if that's not a problem.

Oh and a lensfinder as well as the LCD screen, though the view through it  
isn't exactly what you'll get a picture of, say 80%, but it really saves  
the juice. With my A620 I managed all 700ish carnival shots off one set of  
4 rechargables including using the souped-up flash of the night-time river  
parade and the heavy processing of the fireworks settings.

-- 
Phil Cook

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