[seanyepez]

I am thinking of purchasing a Canon digital camera (most likely the S20 or S300). I am in the market for something $500-$800 and preferably small. Canon seems to suit my needs with its Digital Elph series, but I'm wondering if anything else is good. I have a Fujifilm 2.3-megapixel camera, but that only works through a serial interface and is rather beat up by its co-owner, namely my father. I'm not sure if the new Fujifilm cameras are nice.

I'm not a huge photo enthusiast. I just want something that takes good pictures at standard resolutions (1600 by 1200, 1024 by 768).

Please enlighten me on this topic!

[Cake]

I have a Canon S10 and I love it. Canon's are very solid cameras - great construction and quality pictures. Also check out Olympus cameras too.
Here are a few links:
DCResource.com

Steve's Digicams

Digital Photogrphy Review

[ddiokno]

Hi Sean,
I would have to put my vote in for the Canon S20... I have one at it is incredible! Very small form factor (not as small as the s300), excellent quality construction (metal frame), it takes awesome pictures, and it can accomodate the microdrives (300+ MB of storage), and, most importantly , it complements the tibook... Check out this thread that has some pictures.... Best Digital Camera to accompany the TiBook? Quality/Looks
good luck and warmest regards..
dave

[JEB]

I saw the ZR30 and thought it was great that it has the buttons that light up (the ZR10 did not
have);
Have you found out the still-shot resolution specs? I thought about this camera, but am now
testing out 2-to-3 megapixel still cameras with my computer and printing up on fine glossy
paper this past week . ..
I tried the ultra-small Canon Elph 100 (2.1 megapixels) and thought it was a cool little
camera, esp for the size. It prints a fairly nice color / b-w picture (using an Epson 740i /
high quality setting / glossy photo paper = great stuff; just like real glossy film)
However; I returned it to Staples today (they have a 14 day no questions policy) -- and
bought the Kodak 4800 (3.1 megapixs) -- WOW -- there is a remarkable, amazing photo
quality with a 3 megapix camera! The 2 megapix, again is very very nice.
We want nice shots for our family, and for a future investment, it seems well worth it to go
with a 3 megpix.
For Video / Still -- you may want to have just a ZR30 if you are only needing photos for
(lower-resolution) needs ie informal snapshots for friends, or internet publishing. I saw a
ZR10 hooked up to an iMac DV (snow) and thought it was the coolest; you could control the
camera with the iMovie software.
If anyone finds out the specs for a DV cam as far as still shot outputs, please say so here!
:]