A Question

I borrowed a digital camera from the office over the Fourth of July weekend. (Witness the photo links in that weekend's entries, and the photos accompanying the beer story.) Now I want one. I have resisted it for a long time - I remember very distinctly telling one of my friends three or four years ago that I was digging my heels in on the whole digital camera thing - not that that's a particularly big surprise, I'm a notorious late adopter. But now I think I'd get good use from one.

I think I will mainly use it for family photos (holiday snaps? click-click-nudge-nudge-wink-wink?) and other snapshots. It will likely not get used much in any manual modes, so an extensive feature set there is probably a waste. I've got an entry-level AF SLR 35mm camera - a Nikon 4004 - it was a college graduation present, lo these many years ago. I have used it a lot, and it's been around the world taking great pictures, but I can count on one hand the number of manual exposures I've shot with it.

So what do I want? You're smart. You tell me.