If you are feeling the crunch from your shrinking stock portfolio or otherwise have a tight budget, you can still have a digital camera for the price of a cheap ticket to a Vegas show. There are a handful of options to choose from, and we chose to review the Olympus FE-25 and the Nikon Coolpix L19 both retailing for $109. The price is right on both of these, but when pared against each other, which camera wins dollar for dollar?

Key Advantages

Nikon Coolpix L19
- Nice resolution on bigger LCD screen
- Longer 3.6x zoom lens
- Compatible with more common SD card
- Blink detection, face priority, D-lighting exposure enhancement, in-cam red-eye fix
- Sound with movies
- Simpler menu interface
- Less noise

Olympus FE-25
- More resolution at 10.1 megapixels
- In-camera help guides
- Face detection follows 16 faces
- Included editing software more comprehensive
- More accurate colors

It’s a draw…
- Both take AA batteries
- Both are compact
- Macro modes focus as close as 2 inches