This seems to be a pretty popular question on thelist, and our archives have some good posts: iSac weighs in: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20001127/145722.html good thread: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20001120/145535.html and a thread from just last week: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20011112/017039.html <tip type="thelist"> The search engine for thelist archives is run by google, and you can expect the same quality results you've come to love google for when you use it to search thelist archives! The search engine box is at http://lists.evolt.org </tip> .djc. Erika Meyer wrote: > My department has said they are willing to buy a digital camera for me > to use at work. It needs to be a good value though. > > What I need to do is take good pictures (mostly around campus) for the > web. I need USB. I need to be able to take indoors shots without having > to use flash. I want to be able to set it to take black & white. I > want zoom. Maybe I want other stuff but I don't know enough to say. > > Basically, I would use the camera to make photos indoors (portraits & > objects) and outdoors (buildings, people, vegetation) on campus. I'd > then edit them for the web site. They would not be used for print.