Bruce - I've been looking too - and I think you're right. There are weather-resistant models, but you buy those at the expense of a good zoom.

I need the zoom.

So I'll probably just get a cheapie with asolid opticalzoom and try to keep it as dry as possible.

As for the night-shot feature, I don't need tv-quality footage. I just wanna be able to look at it on the bigscreen and be able to count the points on a nice buck. Maybe do a few still captures to show the HNI crew what a real Pennsylvania Booner looks like. LOL