If you're not just set on a Nikon camera, we got a super nice Kodak from Wal mart (of all places) about a year & a half ago. We had a gift card to Circuit city and just couldn't justify spending a $350 gift card on a camera at Circuit City, when we could get the exact same features in a camera from Wal mart, with better resolution for $150. We bought the ZD710. 7 MP resolution, with a 10X zoom. We got our camera, and the gift card bought our kids a Wii system. Everybody was happy.