Rick,

I ended up with the Fujifilm Finepix S3100. It was a toss up between it, a Minolta model and those Olympus models that you folks have. I wanted a higher magnification than that standard 3X found on most of the digital cameras and yet I also wanted a decent number of megapixels. The S3100 has a 6x optical zoom with another 3.3 digital zoom. However, I can get a telephoto converter kit to increase that by 1.4x IIRC. It is a 4 megapixel model with the rest of the usual "goodies". So far I am fairly happy with it. It is going to be serving double duty as the "family camera" as well as possibly something for digiscoping pictures.