I was in the same boat as you are, needing something to take pic's of wildlife. I could not afford to go fully DSLR and after a year of canvassing the internet, I found what I was looking for. It was a Canon SX10-IS. Again, not a true DSLR with changeable lenses, but with a optical zoom of 20X, it's hard to beat. Also has built in image stabilization. It has 10.0 megapixels. Depending on the memory card, can hold thousands of photo's. It also can take several hours worth of movies including sound. Still, the best feature is the zoom. It has the 20X optical, but also has the 4X digital which can make it a total of 80X if you can live with the lower quality at those distances. The numbers comparable to 35mm is 28mm to 560mm.
Last edited by Kutter; 11/08/10.
