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I have a Mavica and I grilled the Canon salespeeps at MacExpo. I had them show me on a Mac what the Zapshot image looked like. For all I can tell its the same quality as the Mavice. The cheapest Zapshot I've seen is about $360.00 mailorder, I got my Mavice for $200.00 from WholeEarth. Now the Zapshot has two features the Mavica doesn't, it has a Macro so you can get about 15" from the image, the Mavica is 3 ft. The other feature is that you can tell the Zapshot not to flash, can't do that with the Mavica. Autoflash in hopeless lighting situations – like inside on a white background does not help. You might do better if you could turn off the flash and do the lighting with video lights. You can always put a piece of tape over the Mavica flash. Canon has a new $2000.00 camera, it gives you a frame instead of a field picture, so there is no horizontal stepping on a full screen picture. It has a faster lens, a 2.0 (whatever that would mean for a digital camera). I use the DCTV filter in Black Belt's IP to remove the horizontal stepping and it does a wonderful job! If you use the Zapshot or Mavica pictures quarter screen on a 640X400(480) screen, they look just fine. Not good for closeup stuff, Digiview and a still video camera look better.