Yesterday I picked up a Canon SD750 digital camera. It's a member of the digital elph family and so far I like it a lot.
I've been a Canon fan for a long time. My very first digital camera was the Powershot a20, which had a 2.1 megapixel ccd and 3x optical zoom. And it looked and felt like a brick. It took great pictures though.
After I got pushed into the pool during spring break with this camera in my pocket, I had to say bye-bye to my first a20. But my friend replaced it with a new (used) a20 he found on eBay. It worked alright for a few months before randomly shutting off every so often. Time to get a new camera.
The next Canon digital camera I got was the SD450 digital elph. This thing may have been tiny but it took even better pcitures than my old a20. Sadly, this camera died when I was in Aspen--for some reason the lens wouldn't retract fully and it wouldn't take any pictures. I was told that it would be $100-$150 to fix, so I opted for a new camera instead.
The Canon SD750 is a great work of design. There's a ...