we decided to bite the bullet and buy a digital camera today. we were originally planning on buying the nikon coolpix 5700 but decided that there were to many things we didn’t like or were worried about. there was also the concern of jumping in to deep price wise before we knew much about digital photography. anyhow, we decided to go with the trimmed down nikon coolpix 4300. it’s a 4.0 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom. it has a bunch of the same features as the 5700 but is a lot cheaper. don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the 5700. this is however a better grab-and-go camera than the 5700 and it has enough features that we will be able to learn from it for a while into the future. look for comments and a basic review in the coming weeks after i play with it a bit.