Another Long Zoom camera

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Another camera I'm looking at is the Fuji FinePix S5000. It's a 3 megapixel camera like the Canon S1 IS, and about $120 dollars cheaper. On the other hand you give up the image stabilization system for that $120 discount. Like the S1 it's a 10x zoom camera, going from a 35mm camera equivalent of 37-370mm. It also uses AA batteries, which I consider a Good Thing (their heavier than the proprietary lithium batteries, but their also much cheaper and in an emergency can be bought at just about any store). On the other hand the S5000 only takes xD memory cards, which aren't used anywhere outside cameras and therefor are more expensive.