I shot the Tuscany photos and others posted on here with a Konica Minolta DiMage X50 5 megapixel. One nice feature of this camera is that the lense is covered by a metal sliding door so it is more difficult to smudge the lense. This camera is ancient technology and I am sure that there are better choices. Memory is really cheap so that one can shoot a lot of pics at max resolution. I use Apple's software to sort and fix photos. On our Tuscany trip, we shot 550 high res photos. In reality, there are about 5 to 10 really good ones and 100 snapshots as keepers.