I just took my Panasonic Lumix FZ28. It's one of the "ultrazoom" cameras so you can get pretty close images without a huge lose of image quality from an SLR. The beauty of it is it's small and light and will shoot video too...which I've also been posting up to youtube...
Here's a start
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...C89FFC4F5FDD36