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That's sorta my point - a shirt-pocket type 5ish MP camera really isn't
for anyone seriously into photography.

that is very true ... but I have been seriously into photography ( made my
living selling artsy fartsy b&w prints for a couple years, had shows in
galleries etc ) and I never want to go there again.......

My wife has a Cannon digi SLR she got late last year, that would do the
quality, but I don't want to "go looking for photos." I do want to
take the ones that jump out at me and I do want to print them in hardcopy at
decent size and resolution. They will simply be "purdy" pictures, none
of the attempt to be arty of my youth. I'm simply looking for the best
technical "quality" images available in a small water resistent package.