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I have a Casio QV 4000 with finally a lot of equipment ... that's a 4,1 MegaPixel Camera with the same objective than the Canon G2 (who won a lot of comparisms) The good: You got a very good 4,1 Megapix - Cam for the price that does fantastic images from outside objects ... the bad: If the light is bad, the camera is not so good ... but I can live with that because my textures are mostly photographed with good lighting and mostly the walls don't run away so soon ... Consider that it is not done with ONLY the camera ... You also need a good standing tripod (that's a must) and this and that additional lense - maybe some more memory - cards. The tele (from Canon) I bought is more usefull than the wide-angle (also Canon) because all wideangle stretches the images - not good for a texture - great for landscapes. By using additional lenses you might need an additional flashlight. If you're planing to photograph walls etc you might also use a good photobag because you can't carry the wall to your equipment - you have to take the camera to the wall ... and yeah - also some additional batteries etc. etc. ... So - to summon it all up ...: My camera costs around $ 600 (used through ebay) - together with the whole equipment it cost around $ 1200 (if I only count the usefull equipment) I would say you should focus most on the objective - that's the most important part - Minoltas mostly fade a little bit to red (saw that on the Dimage 5 from a friend) - a changeable objective is great - but not effortable for hobby only ... good luck ... Some usefull links: http://www.dpreview.com if you're speaking german - go here: http://www.digitalkamera.de the link leads to some images from walls I took with that camera ... please be carefull - the images are huge - although they are compressed to jpg's