I found this forum by accident. In the past four weeks I have been searching for a digital camera; I must admit I have driven salespeople to drink, if I had known about this site before hand it would have saved me and various salepeople from pulling our hair out. Any way after much delibration and trial and error I have decided on an Olympus D400Z. This decision was based on comments and reviews by this site. I will receive my new camera on the 30th of June, the only problem I can see in the near future is will I be able to make the camera function properly. Again, thanks to all of the folks in this forum. Paul C. Courtney

-- Paul C. Courtney (pcourtney@esn.net), June 22, 1999

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Hi Paul. I am in the same boat as you only I have not bought one yet! I want over 1.meg pixels.Optical zoom.optical and LCD viewing.Easy to use.Good battery life.Direct to T/V.Macro if possible.Good software.Download with USB as it,s in my computer and much,much faster. A good external memory card.AND to anyone reading this,is there anything I have missed that is important? This will be my first and probably only one(I am 70yrs old!) Oh I almost forgot.I cannot pay much more than $700 to $800. USA money. I have been looking at Kodak,Canon and minolta.Thank you to all those that read this. Cheerio.Norman

-- Norman Howard (norman@home.com), June 24, 1999.

Hi I think you will be happy with the oly. I have had mine for near 4mo and it does as advertised. I take a lot of pics of wild flowers and do have trouble with focus on small single , dime size flowers but I think this is a problem with any auto focus camera. Its nice to be able to take several shots then pick the best one. I'm up to near 3000 shots. Have fun Ken some pics at http://members1.clubphoto.com/kenneth29553/

-- Kenneth Irelan (kirelan@ticz.com), June 26, 1999.