Want advice on a new still camera with video recording

[optiplexfx]

I was afraid of that. Anyways so far the best still camera I found having decent video recording capabilities in my price range is the Olympus C-770 Movie / Ultra which is a 4MP camera with 10x optical zoom and has MPEG4 video recording support which is lets you capture close to 30 mins of video on a 256mb memory card at 640x480 resolution which I think is quite good.

[mikishots]

One of my co-workers uses a Fujifilm S-5000, and he was showing me some mountain-biking footage he had taken during a weekend outing.

I must say it was a lot better than I was expecting. Transferred to the computer, it made a very manageable video we could watch. 640 x 480, but it had decent sound and was fairly smooth.

As previously mentioned, neither the still or video camera does both well. Just like cars - hard to find a Ferrari that gets 40 mpg (o.k., not the best analogy, but it's late, and I'm laughing).