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I have used that camera Alan and its a great camera. That and the Nikon D 80 are the two I would consider if I wanted to pack lenses anymore but for our type of hunting I rather keep the pack weight down. My buddies Nikon takes some of the best photos I have ever seen.

This is a great website for checking out cameras. do side by sides. great reviews. www.dpreview.com

I went to buy a canon sx100 is, nded up buying the panasonic TZ5. hopefully i'll get to try it out soon. gets great reviews.

Scott ~ I agree it will be a little akward to pack into some trees. I need to be able to zoom in more than a point and shoot is capable of so I can get wildlife photos to use in conjunction with my writing so this camera became a necesity.

I've put the Panasonic DMC TZ5 through a work out and i am taking it back today. easily 1000 pics in the last couple days. Takes great pics of people and anything at 100 iso. as long as they are relativly still. Action shots lose a lot as the iso speed increases, with target distance and sunlight. I got some good pics of the dogs using a set shutter speed of 1/200sec and iso 100. At those settings you have to be pretty close with the right light. using none of the super powered zoom. The sport setting captures pics fast and still but uses higher iso and the filters used to reduce noise, blurr the pic so i'm not happy that. may be fine for 4/6 prints, no good for anything bigger. Gonna trade it in for the Canon 720 is or Canon sx 100 is. See what i think of that.

I'am prit much sold on the Nikon D40 they seam to have all the fetures required .. With out steping on alot of Cash... 6 plus megpix is really more than we need.. And 2.5 frames per second is fast enough..

I gave up on taking pictures. Even if I ever get a good one the results have always gotten lost or destroyed. photos dont keep very many years in a canvas tent, I found out.

But I had a little photo story that goes along with the "take lots of pictures to get a few good ones" advice.

I watched a presentation by a professional photographer whose photos were amazing. I happened to be standing beside him in the mens restroom, and asked "do you ever take bad pictures"? He said "have you ever seen a bad picture that I took?" I said "no". He said "And you never will".

The point he was making was that he destroyed any evidence of any of the many many bad pictures he had taken so that he could maintain his professional image. It is a story that any dog breeder might take to heart. It is a story about culling.

Smartest thing I have seen said on here in quite a while! I'll remember that saying:D

Though I am still curious of the other endless unanswered questions such as :do plotts really make the "best bear dogs"