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What will be your end state with the images? Art photography or "happy snappies"? Will you be mostly printing images that you take or will you be posting them on a web album? If printing, will you be enlarging any images beyond 8x10? Also, what level of post editing will you be doing with your images? Simple crop and details enhancement or extensive layers, HDR, special effects, etc...

Consider the end state that you intend your images to be, then back track to the kind of digital camera you need to get there. BTW, agree with other posters ref the Canon series. My pocket camera is the Canon SD1100 IS. Great little camera. Go here for research:

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just posting and sending...nothing about presentations or anything like that...