I just stumbled onto this site and am interested in a challenge. I enjoy photographing birds and landscapes especially, and am thrilled with the results I'm getting from my new digital camera, a Canon Powershot SX100. It has 10X optical and goes up to 40X digital, and has image stabilizer, so I have been able to get feather-counting closeups of songbirds that would have been just a blur with my old digital camera (10X optical, 30X digital, no stabilizer)