Expert: John Oliverio - 4/23/2008

Question
Hi, I am having a problem finding a digital camera with all of the features that I want without it costing an absolute fortune. I know that it will probably cost more than I'd like, but I'm hoping you can tell me about one with a reasonable price.
The feature that I want are:
- High megapixels with option to change MB to a lower number if desired.
- The abillity to edit picture on the camera before AND after the picture has been taken (B/w, solarization, cropping, etc.)
- Option to take the same picture two times at once, one with flash, one without.
- A Fair amount of internal storage.
- Rechargable AA batteries.
- The option to set the focus to manual.
- Optical 3x zoom minimum.

I know that that is a lot of features for me to want in one camera, but I would really appreciate it if you could tell me about one or two that do have all of those features.

Answer
Hi.  It sounds like you are asking about a point and shoot camera.  If that is the case, I don't know of a camera like that that has a really usable manual focus. You have to get an SLR to get usable manual focus.  I'm also not aware of on that allows that much editing after the shot.   Particularly cameras that use AA batteries.