High Quality Lightweight Camera?

“I really know nothing about the subject, but I am interested in finding a high-quality light weight camera. If anybody has suggestions, please help. Example pictures would help!”

“I made the mistake and bought a sony cd-r camera, they are huge and record pretty slow on the cd-r, so I was looking for a lighter weight camera today too. Here what I found:

Canon PowerShot S40
Canon PowerShot S45
Sony Cybershot DSC-P9
Kodak Easyshare DX4900
Minolta Dimage F100
Olympus Camedia C-50 <5Megapixels!!!)
they are all pretty good and at around 4 megapixel. the sony camera has the zeiss lens. (better lens)”

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judges?”

“check the batteries before you buy, some cameras use special and very expensive ones. I tend to rule out any that dont use AA's.”

“ive been hiking with my fujifilm finepix 101a (or is it a101 ?) but its pretty small and light, and reasonably cheap (i think it was about $150 a year ago) no zoom, 1.3 megapixel, 20 second video clips, 2 aa power, lcd screen, smart media cards- ive put a beating on mine and it keeps on kicking, consumer reports rates them very high all around, durability too, and a good bang-for-the-buck

if you dont plan to print your pics much above around 8 1/2" x 11", id say its plenty good...i rarely print mine at all, i dont have a good printer, and have no need for hardcopy pictures

thats just my .02

later,
-nate”