| Well, the SP-310 is 7 megapixels which should be good for fairly large prints. I think the 350 was 8mp. It's been a while, but I learned digital with an Olympus (D-460Z then a C-2100UZ) and I found their menu system, symbology and lingo pretty straightforward (much more so than my mother's Nikon Coolpix) and the manual well written. All 3 Olympuses that I've had have had macro modes that are very easy to access (has it's own button on the first two, and on the 310, which has less buttons since it's smaller, macro and a couple other commonly used things are in a pre-menu that comes up if you hit the menu button once, so you press menu then the down arrow to be in macro). My mother, father and brother now all have A-Series Canon Powershots and like them a lot, so those might be worth checking out also (they're slightly bigger than the SP-310 I believe). If he wants to go really small, I know a bunch of folks whow have digital elphs (Canon) who really like them, though those have less manual control (not much at all really, none that is easily accessed or all that intuitive). |
