Hi *, I am a teacher in need of a digital camera with the following features: 1._ you can use to take still snapshots and for actually taping (recording as 'movies') 2._ you could use to record voice well. People have said to me I could (or rather could NOT ;-)) buy one of these very expensive professional ones, OR I could by one which lets you plug in an external professional mic if you need to 3._ I would like for the camera to be able to stream the data directly to a computer, instead of using this extra memory sticks as an option as well and I would like for the transfer/streaming to be in an standard format so that I could use a Windows, Linux or a MAC computer if I need to I need it for my classes As a teacher sometimes I need to make copies/pix of textual information and then be able to scan it and get the text files, which they have said to me you could somehow do with a digital camera as well. How do you do this? Any ideas? Which other things should I be watching out for? Also what would you recommend for video/voice editing? Any -good- links and/or books out there. It is virtually impossible for a newbie to tall apart good info from the lousy/ultimately time wasting type Thanks