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Can anyone help me? I am in the market for a new digital camera.
I will be using it mostly outside, sometimes at night. It gets pretty hot and humid here, so I need something that will hold up to these conditions.

I need more than 5x optical zoom so I can take great pictures of bugs.

These photos may be used in a book I am writing, so quality is important.

I like the image stabilization feature!

RAW format seems to be ideal for what I want, but I'm not sure...


Thank you for your time.