Some friends have the Olympus D460Zoom, only a 1.3, but Good cam! Sharp Pics!
And i neededa replacement stock for an old Ithaca shotgun, and the gunsmith/stockfitter sent me pics from his Oly D460Zoom showing the available blanks and detailed inletting fittings. Killer pics with Excelent detail! Olympus makes a good DigiCam. They definitey get the picture across...
If Oly D560Z is anything like D460Z, it's gonna take excelent pics.
But i noticed the D570Zoom and the A303 are both xD picture card memory!
If your gonna consider xD memory - ya gotta consider tha Fuji 2650Zoom also...
Its onhellofa digicam, i have the 2600, same cam just smartcard, and Love It!
Plus, Fuji 2650Zoom is in your budget <$200 bucks! And comes with Good fast charger and 1 set of Good recharable batteries(1800's)!
Order from <A HREF="http://www.buydig.com/shop.php?prod_id=FJFINEPIX2650&adv=bizrate" target="_new">BuyDig.com</A> at $171 To Your Door!
(or reference current image-resourges. I bought/ordered mine thru BuyDigi.com last year too. No problems, shipped well padded with original unopened factory packed inside that! I think BuyDig is in NJersey, probably ships to Canada no extra)
At ~$171, that Fiji 2650Zoom is real Nice Cam, Package and Price...
Read the <A HREF="http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/F2650/F265A.HTM" target="_new">Review</A> on the 2650 on image-resource - Conclusion - "Clearly one of the better bargains on the market."
If anything happened to my 2600Zoom, I'd replace it with a 2650 in a heart beat and never even consider more MPix...
You'll see, Everybody i know sets their digicams back to 1.3 and 1290*980
anyway! 1290*980 is the best working resolution for practical use! Even at that your gonna be screen capturing your pics to even smaller clips and images for including in Docs, Webpages and Email...
Believe me! Your gonna be usin "Clip'nSav" or some other screen capture program to capture, Drag, Drop and Size the image/pics anyway! A 2.1MPix/1600*1200 is a phonominal image and 1.3/1290*980 is more than enough! If Digicam makers would enable 1024*768, I and most would be usin that! Besides, anythin more than your current screen resolution is shrunk by the software - think about it! Is your current or planned purchase for screen resoultion over 1600*1200? Or even capable of 1600*1200?
Stay in Budget,
Just buy that 2650zoom, has everything ya need to get a good start!
I did and would do it again!
2.1 MPix - More than Enough!