Ray, part of the fun of safari is taking the pictures. On my first trip to Africa 22 years ago, I had ordered a 100-300 telephoto from Navy Exchange. Ir arrived on the ship the day I had left. Nothing worse than being on a safari with just 28mm and 50mm lenses. This time, I want to do it right.

We just came back from store. Looked at Canon Digital Rebel (adding a 70-300 telephoto)and Sony CyberShot DSC-H1 with 12x optical zoom. Also looked at Kodak 7950 with 10x optical zoom. The Canon with lens and accessories will be more than twice the cost of the other two. Now, it is back to dpreview.com for further research.

If anyone has any of these three cameras (or similar) and has pros and cons, I would appreciate hearing them.