Thank you both very much! Yes, I was afraid the choice would become complicated....I deliberately avoided pbhotography for twenty years because I thought an extra hobby would cause me brain overload. I never could have predicted that my son, now 17, would take an interest! Mostly he wants to photograph stars and insects...an odd combination! No doubt he will end up with multiple cameras. He seems to be leaning towards a Panasonic Lumix FZ 2000,_he has been down the rabbit hole of 'research' for some months (unbeknownst to me), and when he talks to me about cameras, he might as well be incanting Sanskrit backwards!