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My 7 year old DD has been doing photography for a while now and really loves it, she's good at it, but her camera has just broken, it was an older Kodak we gave her and I'd like to give her a new one, so her interest is kept up.

I've provisionally narrowed it down to 3.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5592056.htm
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5592489/Trail/searchtext%3ELUMIX.htm
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/77233/show.html

They all give what seems to be about the same performance and ease of use and a 3.5x optical zoom, I know she really would want and use as big a zoom as poss, as she loves the high one I have on my camera and I know she missed not having one on her old one.

The other option is to go for something like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-Lumix-FS30-Digital-Camera/dp/B0031MA144/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1276077174&sr=1-1
which tbh is probably too expensive and risky to give a 7 year old, although she does take care of them.

Do you have any opinions on my theory's or choices?
Thanks!
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