At least it looks as if we managed to get good cameras! I've read some and copied out the more salient pages from the dpreview site (skipping the "compared to..." ones, etc.) to read later on my mini-laptop.
Rats. I hate creating new accounts but it looks as if this flickr.com is worth a look, so Yahoo here we come. I'll see what there is to learn there.
Thanks for the links, Janet -- I would not have found those. You truly are a "super sleuth!" MR