All the newer digital cameras take great pics for the most part I have found. Canons always seem very well rated & repected. The one thing that the Kodak has going for it is it is very good at making movies with sound even at pretty low light!!

Not as good as a good camcorder but pretty damn good. Also it has a big advantage in that it uses mp4 compression which means you can get 32 minutes of video on a 1 gig chip. It also has a better form of jpg compression that it uses to compress your photos to smaller files while it retains it's great quality look. I compared this to a same mega pixil Sony & the pics were not only better but smaller. The sony could only get about 14 minutes of video on a 1 gig chip.
Also if you buy the large gig chips your camera may not read them right so test before buying.
