Digital Photography Review site offers some the best independent reviews of Digicams - See
http://www.dpreview.com/
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The buyers guide is quite good.
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In your shoes, I would go for the Nikon 775. It's very small but good reviews. Some of the newer Olympus models have the equivalent of a f1.8 lens - very fast for a digital camera. Your indoor flash will go faster with this lens.
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Note, that although you save money buying a camera with less megapixels, the more data you pack into each picture, the more flexability you have for cropping and enlarging. So if you plan to do any photo editing at all, bite the bullet and get more megapixels than you were planning. (I have some shots of my car on the Summit Point track, that I purchased from a pro - each shot is over 7 megs! With the computer, I can zoom in to see my instructor's eyes are closed! (hopefully just blinking
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Chuck