I thought you all might like to know our conclusions regarding the digital cameras. One day I was in Office Max (still undecided) and I found a Visioneer One Touch Scanner. When I saw the image quality I purchased it on the spot and went back to my 35MM camera. Now I buy rolls of twelve pictures; And if I am in a hurry go to a one hour developer. The scanner with its copying function, OCR Reader, Faxing, Emailing buttons/internal function is wonderful. My next acquisition is an HP1000 Ink Jet Printer. Beware, the new scanner caused printer problems when installed with a pass through to my NEC860 Superscript Printer through the parallel port. We have resolved that problem by installing and USB Port/Card and getting the scanner off the parallel port. Installing the USB is easier with Windows 98, so this weekend we are installing Windows 98.
After considering the resources that would be taxed on my computer and the image quality for the money ($950 for a Cool Pix Nikon)we felt that the 35mm was great for now. It seems every camera we considered was lacking in some area ie Contrast, color intensity etc.