I love my camera and love to sing its praises! My camera is a Panasonic DMC-LZ7. It is 7 megapixels. Megapixels are important when it comes to enlarging your photos. I have enlarged photos to 11x17 with my 5 megapixel version of this camera with amazing results. Many cameras now come standard 10 megapixels, yet I do not believe that is so important when you can get professional looking enlargements with even a 5 megapixel.

Now to talk zoom. The biggest selling point to me for my camera was the 6x optical zoom. There is no other camera I could find, in my price range anyway, that has a 6x optical...