We owned two Olympus (the 3040 and 4040 series) and both had timers. We have a Canon G2 and it has a timer, too. Oh, he should buy a Canon. Both oly's were good when they worked. First one has major firmware problems, second one (we are suckers for punishment) was very inconsistent writing to the cards. We lost many nice pics. Haven't had one problem with Canon, and picture quality is more consistent then the OLy's were, and frankly blows them away.
