I am beginning to be convinced that lcd viewfinders are the trend of
the future even if that sounds like a pompous prognostication since I
don't even own a zlr (g). However, am I correct in thinking that
Minolta currently makes the highest resolution viewfinder? I was

I'm a computer professional, with some experience of SLR photography.
After many years without a camera, I recently bought a Panasonic FZ3.
I'm very pleased with it. Now I need to learn how to use Photoshop. I've
never touched image-processing software before, and Photoshop is ...

In case folks haven't heard, Picasa2 is available for free
download from www.picasa.com  This is a fine piece of image
cataloguing software which also has basic editing capability
and an easy to use "email picture" function.  Check it out!

Looking at all the talk of IS here, you'd think that photography was
impossible before the invention of this wonder-technology.  Virtually
every camera recommendation espouses "IS" as the must-have solution.
And before people jump on me, I have 2 IS teles for my DSLR rig (and

Time has come to upgrade my old Nikon Coolpix 995. It isn't so much
the 3 MP as the shutter lag that I'm fed up with. I originally thought
of geting a DSLR, but I have decided that I can wait for a couple of
new models still of those, and by a zlr while I wait.

I'm trying to figure out what is the best wide-angle Digital ZLR
currently available.  Specifically, I would like to purchase a 6+
Mega-pixel ZLR that can shoot (with a wide-angle adapter) as wide as a
35mm film camera with an 18mm lens.

Hi everyone!! Glad to see the group up and running. :)
My first digital camera (a Canon S230 point & shoot) is great, but I'm
ready to buy something with a bigger zoom range than my current 2X,
more user control settings, and a camera that is easier to hold on to.