maximum of $350 please... high quality, batteries last long, you can take lots of pictures, and it has to look cute. thank you very much =] Maybe a Sony W55. I've seen them available in colors.
Or, perhaps a Casio Z75. They're pretty cute, reasonably priced and good cameras.
The Canon SD series, like the new SD1000. They're tiny and nicely styled.
If battery life and image quality is important to you, than nothing will beat a Fuji F31fd, but they're not particularly cute. I have a Canon PowerShot A550 and it's GREAT!!! Don't know if you would consider it cute because it's not one of those super-slim cameras, but it takes great pictures and it does very well on Energizer AA rechargeable batteries. The memory card it comes with doesn't hold many pictures, but you can get 1GB SD memory cards that will hold several hundred pictures for about $25.00 a piece. The camera cost me under $200.00 at Wal-Mart. Worth checking out. Even though I personally own this ultra compact camera, I would still like to highly recommend the purchase of a Nikon Coolpix L10 for the following reasons:
1. Besides taking well-exposed hi-quality 5 megapixel pictures, it uses a standard set of rechargeable double AA batteries which last a very long time;
2. Has a 3x optical zoom;
3. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;
4. It's very small and light;
5. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards;
6. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;
7. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;
8. Has tripod mount on bottom of camera;
9. And the price is a mere $120 [sold at Samy's Camera - www.samys.com, and Staples.com.]
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