Dave: that's funny!

I didn't mention Lightroom because I've never used it, but your're right, there is at least one Enfuse plugin for Lightroom.

I wonder how many people are using Lightroom for RE pictures. It's pretty expensive, isn't it?

Alan

Terrie:

I myself don't do a lot of camera buying, but you reminded me of one of my favorite resources that I left off the list, the Panotools Wiki and Mailing list. I have added the links to the article above.

In your case, really I'd need to know more what you intend to do with it. Do you want to shoot panoramas or just stills? Are you trying to produce *great* pictures or just have a good point-n-shoot camera?

From the way you word your email, I'd guess that you're looking for a simple point-n-shoot camera. As I said I don't know enough to recommend a specific camera, but I can tell you that you don't need the most megapixels anymore. Cameras have gotten so powerful that now the pictures are so big they can be a pain to work with. Really unless you intend to print things out very large (12+ inches) you only need 5-6 megapixels of resolution. I'd focus more on other features. I prefer cameras with a real viewfinder AND an LCD screen, easy-to-use menus, and that are easy to customize camera settings (shutter speed, aperture, ISO settings, etc). Also the flash is important. A bad flash means not great pictures except outdoors.

Hope that helped a little bit!