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both indoor outdoor....mostly outdoor, use.. from Tea Parties to car shows. I'm not looking to make the small videos that some do, more for photos.

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You'll do better if you don't get something shirt pocket sized. Cramming full features into tiny packages isn't good for image quality. I use the Panasonic FZ30 as my main camera, like it so much I have 2 of them, but it may be too big. It is a handful.

Some folks will be upset, but I do not like Kodak stuff these days, build quality is marginal, and the extra stuff Kodak builds in, "easy share" etc, does nothing for image quality but takes resources away from it. You pay for everything in the camera, best go for function not bling.

Look at cameras, search for reviews on line, see what folks are saying on the photo forums, and go from there. Advertisements don't mean much. If you aren't going to print circus posters 8MP is plenty. Cramming too much MP output on a small point and shoot camera sensor ruins image quality. Even 8MP is pushing hard. I've got an old Olympus 2MP that will flat kick butt against many of the newer, larger cameras. It's 10 years old, no breakdowns, but I'm getting ready to throw a 3 year old Kodak P850 in the trash, it's been garbage from the start.