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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[memevector.livejournal.com]

I have a digital camera I bought some years ago now, nothing special.

If I were buying a new one, the thing I would most want to change is to have a shorter delay between pressing the button and it taking the picture. It's not instantaneous like on a film camera, so it's a bit limiting for photographs of things that move, because the pic will be different by the time the camera takes it. I'm not sure what counts as "short" these days, but it definitely will be something that varies from camera to camera.