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The main thing we care about is image quality , not bells and whistles. We want your best camera with a street price under $300. And may the best cam win ! With only one exception, the cameras submitted for this roundup cost around $250 or less. Maybe it's the economy, maybe it's some quirk of consumer psychology — but there's no such thing as a $300 camera anymore. Quite a bit has changed in the camera landscape since this survey began in 2001 — and even since last year. All of these cameras now have Optical Image Stabilizers . That is, their sensors actually jiggle, about 4,000 times a second , to counteract the little jitters of your hand — an effective way to reduce blurry shots when you're zoomed in or in low light. All now offer Face Recognition , too. It sounds like a bell, or maybe a whistle, but is, in fact, fantastically useful. When you frame up the shot, the camera draws rectangles around any faces that it spots and calculates its focus and exposure on these...