Have had a Minolta Dimage 1500EX (1.5 Mps)for a couple of years and have found it to be excellent. However, for a combined redundancy/Xmas present to myself, I bought a Dimage 7 (5.24 Mps). Quite, quite astounding!! The 16 Mb CF card which they provide is a total nonsense, so also got a 128 Mb. The camera is capable of far better photographs than I could ever produce but some of the results so far have been stunning - Moon rise on a self-timer shutter; some low sun angle shots with incredible detail and colour; zoom to A3 size and find details which I hadn't known were there when I took the shot. 830 GBP from Jessops and worth every penny.