where can i get some digital camera reviews?

I'm looking at buying a new digital camera and would like some reivews.

I'm looking for at least a 3MP with at least 10x optical zoom. Got my eye on a fuji s5000, or an olympus, or a kodak (don't know the model #'s on the last two) and somewhere in the $300 - $400 price range.

thanks.

Here a few places:
http://www.dcresource.com/index.shtml
http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.imaging-resource.com/

I have a Fuji S304, 6x optical, 3MP, a great camera, but 10 zoom & 4MP is probably the uptodate minimum.

Saw 2 good-looking cameras in a shop the other day: both 10 optical, one 3MP & the other 4MP. Aside from that, they had other features like mutiple iso setttings, which mine does not have. So check out the reviews on these 2: Kodak DX6490 & Olympus C-740 UZ

You might want to try this place too:

_http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html

This site really helped when I was deciding which one to purchase. :D

My experience with Kodak is that it is crap.

I buy at least 2 new digitals each year and best to stick with the Japanese stuff. Big names.

I love Olympus, but bought a Lumix 12X optical zoom for my latest trip to the Arctic. Sold it and am now thinking about the next machine. have a itty bitty Pentax 4 MP thing the size of a cigarete pack, and now looking for something to replace the Lumix, or the Olympus 5000 I sold some time ago because it was only 3X optical. The Fuji's look good.

3 MP is all most people need. If you are a pro then sure, 8MP. Otherwise you'll get great 4x6 prints, better than the pro shops using 3 MP--or 5 at the top.

The Steves Digicams site is very good. That site helped me a lot.

I just bought the Sony DSC-P100 digicam 5mp with 3 x optical zoom. It's my first digital cam and I like it a lot. Was $ 399 and for that price the cam packs a punch and has loads of features. Nice point and shoot or if you want to be a "pro" you can do that too. Can handle upgrade lenses too. Nice and pocket size too and it's damn quick in taking pics.

Just thought I'd share my new toy with you ;)

Cheers
J...

I've been taking only digital photos since 1996. The first was a Casio "toy" with only 0.47 mega pixels. Then I moved through the Olympus line from 0.768 up through the line over the years to the new stuff. What I dicovered is that the new machines are all great. It's now a quetion of menus and ease of use according to need. None of them are better than the other. It's weight, ease of use, features, the type of memory you want, battery, end use, etc.

My first big trip was with the Olympus 0.78 mp camera with only an internal memory. I bought a Toshiba 660 laptop to take along to download the maximum 20 pix as needed. Spent 3 weeks in Papua New Guinea, 2 weeks in NZ, 3 weeks in Australia, a week in Easter Island, and some other places. Let me tell you that was a test of patience with a serial port connection and limited battery supply. Now, man, it's a joke. Better than film cameras and now I take along a gigabyte of memory cards to make sure I don't need to take along a laptop. It's wonderful.

I've been hung up on 10X optical zoom minimum, and bought the Lumix 12X for a speceifc need. I'm thinking maybe 4-8X is enough Decide what your goals are, then you can pick the machine. They are all excellent these days. I am looking for a camera with CF memory. I have used cameras with with SD, xD, CF and Smart Media memory. CF you can use for other purposes. Meaning if you can stick to one format you'll save money. The cost of memory can go beyond the cost of the camera. I'd stick wih CF. xD is slow. SD is very popular and the new Extreme SD cards are good. The extreme SD card writes 2X faster than a xD. This can be important if you are doing fast sequence shots in the Arctic. I found that out on my trip to the Antarctic in February.

Batteries. Most high end cameras now come with unique Nixx batteries that charge in 30 mintues. I still like cameras with 4 AA batteries, but that seems to be a thing of the past. Something to think about depending on where you are going.

btw, the worst camera I ever owned was a Kodak. I gave it to my daughter, and recently gave her my Olympus 3030 and am sendin her my 10X Olympus C-740 this week. Stay with the Japanese. Good stuff. They do more test marketing than the Americans, plus they admit mistakes and change technology rigtht away, whereas the Americans, like GWB, just seem to continue on into oblivian not knowing what the score really is.

Good hunting. I'm going after my 15th digital camera right now, wondering what it will be. I have a credit for the sale of my Lumix It was the best camera I ever owned, but was too heavy and too professional for me. I used it only for the Antarctic trip where I wanted to take fast sequence pictures of animal life and have a really good big zoom (400mm equigv) Like I say, best camera I ever had, but I watn something lighter now.

right now i have a fuji 1.3MP digital camera and use it 100% for macros of flowers and stuff, then use my minolta x-700 35mm camera for everything else since i have different lenses for it (my max is 200mm macro/zoom lense). So yea i'm looking at more zoom power than higher megapixels. And that was my thought that 3MP should be able to print anything I want it to, so no need to go higher than a 4MP.

I have a Nikon coolpix 5700 at work ( 5MP, 6x or 8x optical) and love it, but it cost $800 at the time.

Even after getting a good digicam, i'll still use my film camera.

Yo, Adams. I agree 3-4 MP is enough for any kind of print most non-pro's would wish to make. After that one looks at optical zoom, lens speed, and ease of use of the menus--often not so easy to learn. What I loved about the Lumix was the 12 X optical zoom equiv to a 440 mm zoom on a 35mm camera. Trouble was the camera was the same size and weight as a big old Canon SLR. So, I sold it and now am looking for the "ideal" camera. I have a C-740 Olympus (10X optical zoom, 3 MP). It's small light weight and in looking at the wares yesterday, I decided that it is about what I need right now. Still looking at the Canon SureShot Pro with it's 8MP and CF memory card. But.........It still isn't the ideal. Bit heavy and maybe too large.

But, I went away from film in 1996 and am pleased to have done so. I have a huge library of jpeg's from our many adventures over the years to exotic lands and am now trying to figure the best program to turn them into DVD slide shows. In the old days I was a B&W guy and did all my own developing and printing. Now, I can do that with digital without a dark room or chemicals. Fantastic. And in color OR B&W, or both.