[Diplomat]

I don't know a thing about cameras. However, this site may give you the answers you are looking for.

http://dpreview.com/

[supercat]

One of my biggest complaints with almost all digital cameras I've seen is their incredible slowness. Most digital cameras take forever to power up, take a second or so to get ready to take a picture (half-push the shutter), and take a quarter-second or so to take a picture when the shutter is actually clicked. Then once they've taken a picture, they take forever to process it before they're ready to take the next picture.

I sorta miss my old Casio QV-770. The thing was a battery hog and the resolution was pitiful by today's standards (640x480), but it had a mode where it would snap four pictures in rapid succession with a first-picture shutter lag of NEGATIVE 0.1 seconds. Unfortunately, I suspect today's higher resolution CCD's may not be able to do that.

[GO65]

Fuji FinePix S3000.