digital oscope suggestions? <500$?

Docedison,

I don't disagree with anything you said; however, I personally have had one solely analog scenario that I much prefer the digital scopes in.

I have an interest in high speed photography (Doc Edgerton, microsecond duration flashes). When attempting to determine the duration of a particular test flash, I ended up having to construct a microcontroller circuit to perform a series of actions to essentially capture the flash durations waveform.

The uC would first open the shutter of a digital camera. Then it would trigger the analog scope to start a sweep. It would then fire the flash. Finally it would close the shutter.

It was while performing that sequence, repeatedly, that I purchased the Rigol.

Walt