I wasn't able to get to Best Buy, but when I stopped in to Walmart (needed a cheap frame for a certificate), I checked out what they had for selections. Most of the cameras are SO tiny! There's no place to put my fingers. Another thing I noticed is there's no viewfinder on most of them. You have to look at the LCD screen to take a shot. This afternoon I tried repairing the old camera, without success. I'm having a hard time letting go of my dinosaur.
From the handful Walmart had laying around (yes, hanging off their little display stands, with various parts missing) it seemed like the cheapest I could go and get a decent feature set was something like a Nikon Coolpix L20 for $79.. Of course, all reviews are a combination of "Best camera ever!" to "The pictures were so blurry I took it back to the store." Grr.
I'm torn between cheaping out, and getting something right away, or waiting to buy a better camera that costs more. Having all this rain has lessened the urgency to buy something immediately, but eventually the monsoons will stop and I'll be back in camera desperation mode.
In the meantime, I could always pull out our old 35mm regular camera and just get the developing done onto a CD. Let's see, I bought the digital back in Oct '04, so there's decent odds that the old camera has a 6 1/2 yr old roll of film in it.
