I'm so tired of us being broke. If I just had $300 of disposable cash right now, I could pick up a Canon Powershot Pro90 IS on eBay (with wide-angle and macro lenses and a battery charger, even) to replace my Olympus D-500L, which -- while The Digital Camera To Buy at the time I bought it, six or seven years ago -- is now showing its age badly. (Not to mention that I hit the limits of what I could do with it probably three or four years ago and have been wishing for a more capable camera ever since.)
Mmmmmm, 10:1 optical zoom with electronic image-stabilization.....
(Yeah, you heard that right. 10:1. Optical. Sure, there's 4:1 digital zoom on top of that, but digital zoom is just a fancy phrase that means "throwing away data".)
UPDATE: It must be declared that verily, darthgeek doth rock. Further, deponent saith not, except for a big "Thank you."