my mom always whines when choosing photos that i take; she cannot understand why i "need 40 shots of the same thing"

What camera Mark?

Its a Fuji s6500fd --> £150 so not the most expensive.
But a lad i know has been taking pictures with one
i personally think the quality for the price is pretty good.

It also gets great reviews.

Only learning with it

But good fun, gets me out lol...

From Camera to Internet, no editing in Photoshop.
Only File sizes reduced.

It has a 28mm to 300mm lens so Liverpool does
look further away than it really is. Which makes
the zoom seem that much better.

Cool

Good luck with the camera

I have an SD500 (my mom has an SD550); I want to upgrade to the SD950 (12.1 mp and up to 1600 iso setting vs my current 7.2mp/800iso)

They're nice shots Mark

Sony Cybershot T20 for me, I once tried a bigger, better camera, but it's just not my thing. I'm the guy for the quick atmosphere shots.

Apparently this 6500 will out do the 9500 gizzy. Something to do with the way the light hits the chip.
I can ask my super Geeky friend for an right up lol

Giz Mine will ISO 3200

Thanks for your comments, I'm only like you guys
point and click.

Ian's the only on that does it for a profession I know

Yeah I used to have a Canon SureShot - it was so fast, half the time you didn't need to look through the viewfinder to get a great 'party shot'

I think the 'only' thing I dislaike about my OlympusC770 is the shutter lag. Perhaps it's time to splash out on a newer version