> The Canon A series work good with gphoto2. Anything which needs gphoto instead of just working like a disk drive is a PITA.
> Get good lenses, NiMH batteries, & compact flash (preferably CF2) > storage. Ack. Unfortunately, standard batteries seem to be replaced with that awful lithium-ion rubbish leaving no choice afterwards. Want a spare battery? No problem. That's $150, thanks... Getting all those features you listed in $400-600 is unrealistic. If you get them at all, they'd have to be rock-bottom I-hate-to-say quality. 256MB memory (kind of minimum you'd want) starts at $140 for CF. From a photographic point of view, the picture quality of most $1000-1500 digicams is rubbish (read consumer Oct 03 onwards for comparisons). I don't want to know what the story is at 1/3 of that price. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
