I bought the Fujifilm S5700 digital camera. It is a camera for the start up pros. The built of the camera is like a SLR camera and looks cool. The menu is very user friendly and has a jog dial with explanations on the LCD of how to use the menu, it is great and easy. It is a 7.1 MP with 10x optical zoom(which is incredible) and 4x digital zoom.
The picture quality is superb I took 400 pics with this camera all nature photography and the results matched with the pics taken by a SLR camera. The only downside is that sometimes the picture comes grainy but you can use that to give a mat finish. Coming to the price it is cheaper than all the other cameras with such features. To top it all it uses batteries in a frugal way. I took 270 pics with the 4 alkaline batteries which is superb.
Overall a great value for money product for people who want more than the regular digital camera.