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Hi Enigma.
It depends what you want to achieve, as far as digital stills go.
Do you want to use it for night-time/astro photography, or just day/terrestrial use?
There's a huge range of digitals now, and it just depends how much you want to spend, in the end.
You can get a consumer-level digicam with a few manual functions for $500 or less. That'll probably get you around 3-4 megapixels, around 3-4x optical zoom.
From $500-$1000, you can get the next level up, 5 megapixels and above, some with 3x and some with 10x optical zoom, most will have almost full manual control.
For up to $2000, you're talking digital SLR's, the cream of the crop for the amateur. Not cheap, but clearly the best cameras out there at the moment.
Just make sure you look for:
- how many megapixels
- how much optical zoom (don't even worry about digital zoom, you'll never use it imo)
- what type of memory it uses (some memory is more expensive than others)
- how much memory it comes with
- what type of lenses/adapters you can get with it
- what type of manual functions/overrides it has
I hope that helps!
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