This camera has it's own type battery & comes with a recharger (takes like 3 hours to fully charge). You can take TONS of pictures before the battery runs out (like 200-400 pictures or like 30 minutes of video). It takes all sizes of SD cards (I got a 16gig SD card for my birfday), easily talks to any kind of computer (I use Winderz XP, Winderz 7, and Mac OSX Snow Leopard). It's a KILLER camera!
Here's Wolfgang's nose. Make sure you enlarge it just to see the awesomeness of the zoom! And that was with no fancy thingies, just hit the zoom button.