I recently bought a Canon Powershot SX110IS. Love it. Its got 10x optical zoom, with 9.0 mega pixels. Far and away better than anything I have had before...and its a nice looking camera to boot. To give you an idea of its capabilities, the last home game I was sitting in the west side, upper deck section G, row 10....and I could get close-ups of Chizik on the sidelines. Pretty sweet!
10x is an improvement over the older modles with 3x... but did they ever build in image stabalization? That always seemed to be the one thing missing from the Powershot SD's...