7/10    Looking for a digital camera for mom. Mom still hasn't figured
        out how to work the DVD player. She loves her Yashica T4
        (point-and-shoot film camera). Is there's anything like a
        digital version of the T4? Are there cameras that always do
        the right thing if you turn it on and push the big button?
        What camera did you get for your mom? :)
        \_ just get a Nikon Coolpix.  it is one of the most under-rated
           consumer camera out there on the market.  However, Yashica T4
           is a very high standard to beat for several reasons:
           1. Yashica T4's prime lens is EXCELLENT.  You will not able to find
           a decent digital camera without zoom.  Optically, it will be
           difficult to beat T4
           2. Unless your mom is relatively sufficient with computer,
           she would find that digital camera is a lot more complicated than
           film point-n-shoot.  Typical film P&S camera has something like
           4-5 controls.  Typical digital camera has at least 2 dozen options.
           3. Yashica T4 has a relatively fast response time, both in terms of
           shutter lag and time between frames.  typical low end digital camera
           is notorious for slowness in both catagory.
           I bought my dad (who doesn't knows how to turn on a computer and
           doesn't know how to check voice mail on cell phone) couple cameras.
           Olympus D100 (very easy to use and pretty good optics at the time),
           Nikon Coolpix 4200 and Canon A-series.  Canon A-series is good
           because it uses AA battery.  I find my dad kept using alkline
           battery despite i already bought him two sets of NiMH.  From this,
           I know that my dad really prefer AA batterys.  Canon's A-series
           is a bit slower than Nikon counter part.  and its array of manual
           overwrite confuses people.  Nikon doesn't have manual override,
           which turned out to be a blessing.  But the response time is also
           slow.
           In short, rule of thumb is:  1. AA battery 2. go for 4Mpixel or
           *LESS*, and 3. get less than 3x optical zoom, and 4. get at least
           35mm on the wide end of zoom, as wide end of zoom is much more
           useful and critical than the long end (and 35mm is the equivl of
           35mm format, of course).
           \_ Thanks!
           \_ I have a Nikon Coolpix 3200 and it also uses AA batteries.