Order Retrieval

This is the top choices (ordered from top down) for the midrange camera (under $300) that I bought for my father in law.

Important features:

Usable power on - so far the best one is the sliding window

Good technical specs

Reasonable cost - one of the cost factors is the cost of the memory; in this repsects SD is by far the best.  So in the begining I was searching only for cameras with SD cards; although that conflicted with my sliding window requirement, so I have added sony's memory stick.

http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/DSC/DSC-T2/index.html
http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/DSC/DSC-T70/index.html
http://fujifilm.jp/personal/digitalcamera/finepixz100fd/
http://dc.casio.jp/product/exilim/ex_z77/
http://www.nikon-image.com/jpn/products/camera/compact/coolpix/s210/index.htm
http://panasonic.jp/dc/fx33/index.html