Originally Posted by Kewl X5

Congrats. Best point & shoot digital camera IMHO are Canons. I have a Canon S500 and takes great shots. Love the new SD-series which are much thinner and due to using SD memory card instead of the CF in my S500.

Take some great pictures!

Originally Posted by dkl

Wow! That is a great price on a great camera! Congrats on the new camera. You will definitely love it :thumbup: I have my SD500 for about 6 months now and would not trade it for anything else...well...except may be for that SD550 that has the larger LCD screen :)

You should definitely consider investing in some larger SD high speed cards and an extra battery, though. That 512mb card would get depleted quickly, especially if you use the short movie feature (a 2GB card can only hold 16 minutes of 30FPS video). And at its highest resolution, each picture would go anywhere between 2MB-3.5MB...so a panarama picture could easily end up being 16MB-20MB in size!

Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

Hey Curtis! How's the 6er doing?

I can't be really specific but I would avoid Sony digicams. They are sure cool looking and stylish but I am very skeptical about the quality. It seems to me that Sony makes some very slick cameras but they are almost too delicate. I also find that there is too much shutter lag with their cameras. I have recently played around with my brother's T1 and I was not impressed. It was slow and actually a little cumbersome to hold and operate.

I have been very impressed with my SD400. The battery life is phenomenal and the picture quality has been excellent. I mostly like the form factor and easy of use re: controls and software.

Originally Posted by Curtis

Nice camera Greg!

Not to hijack your thread but I am looking at these three ultra compact digitals.

http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php...roductNr=25537

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...DigitalCameras

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...me=specs&var2=


Anyone have any feedback on them? I currently have a Pentax Optio S5i but have not been entirely happy with the quality. I realize I am sacrificing quality by the small size but I am hopping that one of the three above might be better.

Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

Very nice SG. I love my SD400. The SD550 is noticeably thicker and heavier than the SD400 though. I opted for the SD400 because of it's size, 5.0 MP is plenty good, and the price was right. I bought it from Costco for $300. Sold a Canon A70 for $100 to offset the $300 and I still have a Canon A80 and a Minolta DiMage 7i, oh and a crappy ass HP I like to keep in the X5 just in case.

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

...I decided to just get the 512 mb card until I figure out my needs. In addition, instead of getting let's say a 2gb card, I think I would just get several 512mb cards. That way if a card is damaged or lost, all my eggs aren't in one basket so to speak. FYI, I also got a usb 2.0 SD reader for $9.99. That way, I won't need to turn on the camera and waste battery time while I download pictures etc...

Originally Posted by motordavid

SG: No Xpert here, but I agree w/your logic on the batch of 512s vs a 1G or 2G card, and the reader. Even on "Large/SuperFine", I can pack a lotta pics on a couple of 512s. Amazing how the price for mem cards is dropping like a rock.
What'sHisName was right on...

BR,md

Originally Posted by SuaveX5

Canon has some very nice Digital Cameras.

last month i got the POWERSHOT S2 IS with a 1gb SD card, and the best part is that it was free :D i used my rewards points from american express to get it :thumbup: it was only 88,000 point needed to get the camera.

it is only 5 mega pixel but it is loaded with feature and a 12x optical zoom and the combined zoom is 48X.

http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/con...&modelid=11368