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<p>Robert - thanks for your advice. I wasn't clear in my inital post that the reason I want to go as cheap as possible is that I want to buy 15 cameras to create a bank of cameras to create little movies like this for a kids photo workshop<br> I am pretty old school and at one time thought about buying used manual film cameras and setting them up exactly as you say. Maybe there is a digital camera from 5-10 years ago that I could buy cheap and still have the control you describe?</p>

<p>Thanks Andy I just looked up powershot and saw the Canon PowerShot A2500 for $80 and will want to go along the lines of that.</p>

<p>Thanx Lex! I did not know about that function "custom spot mode"</p>

<p>What is the current least expensive digital camera that has "fireworks mode"?<br> If there was model that I could set up manually that would be even better but I am guessing a "point and shoot" style camera with the "fireworks mode" preset is my best bet.<br> If anybody had a recommendation on buying used or older models so I can go even cheaper that would be great too!<br> Thanks so much for any advice - I am glad to be back on photo.net - it has been a while for me !</p>