Digital Camera

[Gujustud]

Well one of the perks to working with your dad, is you find ways to conning him to buy things. The hardest part is to make him think he needs it first tho

We'll we really do need one for our shop, because a lot of the time customers want to see a progress report, and taking pictures and sending it them is the best way.

So we're in the looks for a digital camera. I've been looking for a while, but I'm still soaking all the info in. Here's some things for you to help me out:

1) Budget: $300-$450
2) Warrenty?
3) Optical Zoom. Digital zoom can eat my ying yang. I'm all about the optical baby.
4) Manual Focus??
5) Onboard memory?? or What type of media is best? Cheap? I don't want to buy a camera for $400, then find out I need to spend another $200 for a 16meg chip or something stupid like that
6) upgradable?
7) will be used to take night shots, along with extreme close up (for detail).
8) Video/sound recording is not important.

Thats about all I can think of, any info is appreciated! Thank Guru's!