Sony W-120

Thanx for ur knowledge enhancing post laura..I'll keep ur views in mind when I go to buy the camera. Can you believe it!, in India W-120 costs Rs 11000, i.e. 220 $ (11000/50)...Isn't that a very big profit margin for the company!!

I would also want to know the quality of the videos that one gets from this camera

On the hard drive, you're only going to get a couple of minutes of video on any digital camera. Of course, the size of your memory card will give you more shooting time. The quality will be very good for a digital still picture camera. It own't be the same kind of quality however that you will get from a good camcorder but with the camcorder, you won't be able to get a still picture that is as good as from a digital. I think that the manufacturers do it purposely so that they can sell you two cameras. I would buy the W-120 and if later you want to pick up an easy to use and inexpensive camera to shoot film, try the new Flip camera. Very simple to operate and takes good quality film. CNN issues the Flip to its' reporters because of its' simplicity of use.

My comment on noise was related to the ISO capability: it might go to 3200 ISO, but my experience with Sony and other similar cameras is that you won't get anything worth keeping above 400 ISO.