can someone please point me to a good site that will explain the different features and perhaps have objective reviews? all my searchs end up with merchants sites and i'm not sure that i trust them.

i'm not looking for anything high end, simple an easy to use middle quality camera with a good track record.

i guess i'm looking for the accord of digital camcorders.

thanks!

 

http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html

Are two fairly good sites. I have the olympus C-700 with 10X Optical. 2.1 MP. Does the job.