My father has been doing photography since the 40's, but he's getting
older and not quite as good with camera equipment as he used to be.

He wants to try using a digital camera, so I want to find one that's:
* relatively high quality
* pretty small.
* has a fast turn on & recycle time
* has a fast response when the button is pressed
* has a large screen
* has a good wide angle end of the zoom (very important IMHO)
* and most of all, is easy to use

Hmmm, although I said small, I'm now thinking larger would actually be
easier to handle, as long as it's not significantly heavier.

I loaned him my Nikon 5700, but the "change the flash" button is right
next to the "change the resolution" button and his trembly fingers kept
hitting the wrong button (giving him a long recycle time because the
camera kept saving huge .tiff files).  So the Nikon 5700 is out (and
it's descendants too).

I'm looking at the Nikon Coolpix 8400.  Any comments?  Good wide angle
and it has the guaranteed automatic green setting on it's dial, but
looking at the specs online, I don't see any numbers about button press
reaction time and/or shot to shot recycle time.

Any other camera suggestions?

Ben in DC
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