8x optical zoom canon for $200 sounds like a bargain (make sure it's realy optical) 7 megapix is more than decent, more than that and you realy need a bigger sensor (small sensor + loads of megapixels = loads of noise). www.dpreview.com has a lot of information about cameras.
What to look for in a digital camera?
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