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Hi there I have to agree with the earlier posts in that any main stream digital camera should be saving to the memory card in a standard form (my nikon f50 has Raw and jpeg. i can literally stick this in a usb card reader and drag and drop the pictures to my pc). Any half decent camera will come with a wall charger which will typically take 4 hours to charge. A point to note about battery life is that using lcd screens (ie compact cameras) uses the juice really fast - with a camera with a old fashioned eye site you can take the photos without the lcd ever turning on - increasing the life dramatically. I can take up to around 1500 photos ( i study architecture and take lots) on a single battery life - that is about 6 gb of data with my camera. Ultimately the camera you should get is determined by the photos you wish to take. if its animals you need one with a larger optical zoom if its family photos you want one with low light as alot of photos are indoors and this stops them from getting fuzzy. If you want to take photos of plants a good macro is desirable. I would recomend the fuji compact range, i have an f10 - there first generation and it is still fantastic today - i would never get rd of it. the f20 is good as is the f30. (though i like the f20 more) these cameras are simple to use and very good at low light - ideal for every day use. lastly i would like to point out that you really dont need anymore then 6 megapixels. you will find that if you get the larger ones you will end up not using the ful amount as it goes through your memory reallly fast and what many people dont realize is you sacrifice permorance for the extra pixels. the reason is that the cmos (the light receptive chip where the actual pixles are located) is physically limited. so it makes sense that the more pixels you cram on there the smaller each pixel will physically have to be the less actual light can hit that pixel. This means that the larger number of pixel cameras require more light to achieve the same shot - meaning a larger aperture, higher iso or longer shutter speed is required - each of which has its draw backs. though a larger aperture is the least of the three - so take this to max first. Sorry to bable on but the only exception to this statement comes from learnign the hard way - i have found that my 6 mega pixels is absolutely fine for almost anything - but for architecture and graphics the higher quality images are desirable and so more mega pixels are required. I am using an slr nikon d50 with 4 lens and am now looking to buy a new body called the fuji s5 - but i still sware by the f10. apart from that i would get a fixed slr cannon with the biggest optical zoom i could fined. my tippents dan -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html