DAKFL - zoom me in

[purplerabbits]

I wish to buy a digital camera with a lot of optical zoom for photies of birds and other things. I do not want to spend more than £150. I was thinking of this one Fuji FinePix S5700 Digital Camera (7.0MP, 10x Optical) 2.5" LCD purely cos I saw in reduced in Jessops and Amazon have it even cheaper (which is not to say cheap). Does anyone have any others to recommend/warn against or notes of things I should think about?

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[adjectivegail]

Nice camera.

I don't really know much about cameras, except that my dad gave me one of these for Christmas about 3 or 4 years ago and I managed to take photos like this and this with it, and I don't consider myself to be any kind of photographer.

One of the things I love most about my camera is that it's small and light-weight and the battery lasts forever (can forget to charge it for 3+ months and then still use it all day at Longleat without it running out of juice). 4xAAs seems like quite a lot of weight to me, just want to check it wouldn't become an issue for you.

The camera you've linked to is cheaper than the 6.3MP one of the same type. Boggle.