My parents used to own an old Espon digital camera. A few years ago it started acting up, but since my sister and I had both gotten digital cameras of our own, my parents had stopped taking as many photos. So it wasn’t really a problem. Since my sister is off at college, and I’ve graduated & have my own place, they’re taking photos again!

So they asked for my help to pick out a digital camera. Their main requirements were that it be small, but still have some optical zoom. Quality was important, and everything else was fairly unimportant. They eventually went with a Casio EX-S500 (which they love), but here are some of the other cameras I researched.

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