Gil and Arlene, I was only in NY for the weekend for my nephew's wedding (rehearsal dinner Fri. night across the East River, what a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline, wedding outside on Saturday evening, what beautiful weather we had! I'm glad I enjoy weddings, as I seem to have a lot of them on my plate these days, coming from a large and close family! Sunday on the way home we went to B&H from 12:30-2:00pm! (my SIL is a camera nut with the Canon 5D), then down to the West Village for a late cafe lunch outside before heading through the tunnel and home. The waterfront in that area is beautiful!

Back to cameras, my SIL once had two earlier versions of the Nikon Coolpix (point and shoot). At the time, she did not think they were so user friendly, and they were certainly NOT small like they are today. Over the years, I have followed her with almost every camera she bought, buying the next release. Been stuck with my Finepix S5000 ever since and she moved forward.

I know megapickels are important when you want to crop and "create" a bigger zoom. My Finepix at only about 4 is not good at that. I cut too much out, and it is fuzzy. Even my little Sony (7.2 mp) doesn't do a good job at that. So I want to have a big zoom for travel. As anyone on this board knows, I LOVE taking pictures close up (see avatar!)