I am using olympus C-730 resolution is 3.2M pixel. 10X optical and 5mm micro. digital view finder..... Only $2980.. but already no production. It is replace by new model 740 and 750. But I found a weakness point that is night shot is not so good. May be it is because the CCD quality circuit and PCB design and the max. apperture only have 2.8 Recently the Cannon A70 is pertty good only $2XXX. and the 3X optical 4mm micro and size is small only around 295g. And the battery is use AA size X4. I think this is very important. Because even you use up the battery you still can easy to buy a new one to replace them.