Thanks for the replies, keep em' coming
Mike, the Fuji's do look pretty good. A friend of mine has a 3800, I haven't gotten to see it except for in the store yet...Also looking at the S602Z. What kind of zoom you got on your camera's, and can you read the clocks at the end of the track?
Benny, yes a digital camera (not digital film camera) is what I'm looking for. I've looked in a few magazines at reviews and also dpreview.com is very extensive. Also Consumer Reports for what that is worth... They did rate the Canon G3 and Fuji 3800 very well. Olympus also ranked very good. So you're saying that your Olympus has a 3x optical zoom and you can see the clocks pretty good? Sccwweeet. If you could send me a couple of those pix that would be great. I'm definitely gonna get more memory...I'm not even paying attention to what the camera's come with..except for type of memory...I have heard mixed things about Smartmedia...almost like they are gonna kinda skip over it and use xD memory. Another thing was microdrives...but I don't think I need to worry about those.
Slow86: I agree you don't need too much more than a 2.1 MP, which was why I wasn't planning on going over 3 really...since I don't need to spend the extra money on something I'm not gonna use. 10x optical on your Sony sounds very nice. That must get the clocks without any problem. I have a question maybe you could help me with regarding the digital zoom...If you are recording are you able to use the optical then digital zoom combined or just optical? I'm not sure exactly how that works... I know optical is the choice over digital...and then you get into interpolation and crap like that...
Thanks again for the help!
BTW...I've narrowed it down to just 8 cameras dunno
Canon Powershot A70, G3
FujiFilm Finepix 3800, S602Z
Nikon Coolpix 3100
Olympus C730UZ, C740UZ, D560 Zoom