For what it's worth, both of my kids AND I had Olympus point 'n shoot cameras before we moved on to something different. Andrea has mine now, and Sonja will give Justin hers when the time comes; they were great, GREAT little workhorse cameras! Rich's got a dead pixel right in the middle of the picture, so he was forced to move on. He and I both love our Minoltas (my Africa camera AND my British Isles camera; I personally think it rivaled all the big lenses out there) but I am also in love with my S3IS. I consider them both to be in the Lincoln Navigator line of cameras.