What is the best 3.0 mp 3x optical digital camera?

Generally, with few exceptions, all digital cameras with the same megapixel range and same lens characteristics will be very very similar. The major exception is shutter response, that is how fast can you take successive pictures. Unlike film cameras which will take a pix just about as fast as you can trigger the shutter, a digital camera needs time to process the image and this can be very lengthy and annoying. Get features such as this from the web. In addition, Amazon.com provides extensive customer comments (good and Bad) for everything they sell.

I can say, the Fuji finepix S5100

4MP
10X optical zoom and it's available for very good price