Product

Camera

Approximate Street Price

Key Features

Included Software

Positive Remarks

Negative Remarks

Kodak DC280 Zoom

$650

2X 30-60mm Zoom, 20mb Kodak CompactFlash card included

Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0
Adobe PageMill 3.0

Beautifully sharp images in good light situations, especially outside; fast and easy to get up and running; user-friendly software interface

Not great for close-up shots, eats up batteries QUICKLY; tends to lose focus on dimly lit subjects, difficult to frame subject through optical viewfinder

Olympus D-340R

$250
(you'll probably want to spend an additional $60 for an AC adapter)

8mb SmartMedia card

Adobe PhotoDeluxe 3.0
Olympus CaMedia 1.11

Takes very good close-ups; great entry level price for online auction user; easy on batteries

Instruction manual difficult to follow; VERY slow image tranferring speeds; expensive peripherals, such as AC adapter, and FlashPath floppy disk adapter