What the best digital camera you own?

i want it to have 6x or higher optical zoom, fast between taking pics, good lighting, good mega pixels. under $300 dollars.

I only have one, a HP Photosmart M417 with 3X optical zoom and 5.2 Megapixels. But it's cool. It is rather slow from taking one picture to the next though.

Canon Sureshot A87

Canon PowerShot A530

i've only ever owned the sony dsc w5.

but the best cam i've used is the D70s.

I have a Canon Powershot S1 that I absolutely love... it has all of the qualities that you mentioned above, and more. Not to sound like a commercial, but I highly recommend it. It has great picture and movie quality and you can do a lot of cool things with it.

The ONLY one i own (so far) is an Argus dgital camera that i bought at a small dept. store for $20.00...!!! and it takes pretty good pics!

I have a Panasonic DMC-LZ2 that I really like. Of course, I bought it a year ago so it's probably a dinosaur. Have you checked out epinions.com?

The Casio Exilim series is AMAZING. i have had 2 cameras from the series and have had no problems with them. The quality of the pictures is amazing, not to mention the amount of options there are for taking pictures. (It offers options for taking pictures of children, sunsets, twilight, portraits, scenery, even food and many many more.) I would HIGHLY recommend these cameras. I love everything about them. http://exilim.casio.com/