6-8MP will allow you to print huge blow ups if you wanted. That's more than enough for what most people print.

Enjoy your new camera! Looking forward to some more shots of the bathroom floor armory.

 

I need to pick up a P&S soon too as I accidentally destroyed mine. Prolly going to get the SD1100IS.

 

mr. brucelee, the photography thread is not only for SLR cameras. i shoot most of the time with a P&S. so please post stuff there and don't worry about it.

 

this is my favorite P&S camera.





Canon G10

 

another great camera





Nikon P6000

 

Canon or Nikon.it is a problem~~~

 

Wow... Blows the budget away but wow, might have to check it out.

 

I love this one, 10X optical and still pretty small...smaller than G10...its probably like 1.5" thick, and extends like 4" About $230?

Its probably actually better than a smaller elph, which is square and harder to take out of pockets...this one has smooth edges so would slide in and out...and extend...



totally copying Canon. Low blow Nikon

 

well, i like a camera that you can attach a flash to it. i hate the flashes that come on the P&S cameras, never strong enough. so that is why i chose those two. now the canon one allows you to shoot RAW if you ever want to get into bigger and better things.

 

i havent even used RAW on my DSLR

 

Ha! You know why I have a bathroom floor arsenal? Because none of the lights in my house are bright enough for my camera to take decent pictures with, so I go into the bathroom where there are halogen lights that light up much brighter then anything else... I could use my kitchen but I go for the bathroom instead.

Now I don't have to take the pictures in the bathroom anymore, but I think I'll keep on doing it for the sake of tradition... Apparently people are always disappointed when the pics aren't taken outside the bathroom... hahah... For traditional purposes, I'll keep the shots in the john.

 

plus using a hotshoe flash on a P&S defeats its entire purpose.
If you care about photos enough to care about a better flash, you wouldnt be using the P&S in the first place and sure as hell wont be carrying both in your pocket!

 

Exactly my friend. I'm not using this camera to be some photographer, I'm using it for random stuff, mainly fun shots with my friends and family that I can send back home to Croatia and such... One of the most important things is that it needs to be able to fit into my pocket nice and flat, has good battery life, and allows me to take a lot of pictures... I figure I have a 1 gig memory card and I can lower the resolution to where the pictures will still look good but wont be poster sized which is not something I need.

If I want to get back into photography like I was back in high school (almost 10 years ago), I'd get a nice SLR and not a point and shoot!

I hate using my camera phone... Always turn out like the worst pictures ever even though its 1.8mp, its the lens and crap that sucks so the pics always turn out awful. I'm always wishing that I had a simple little camera on me to take a nice P&S photo, now I can! YAY!

Thanks for all the advice everyone even though most of you were recommending stuff that was totally not what I wanted and/or out of my price range.

 

plus you can do a lot more with your flashlight comparisons if you have manual mode!

 

Weird.. I always hate how harsh the flash is on every P&S cam I have had, so I usually end up either never using it or taping some white paper across it to diffuse it. Also have never used RAW w/ my DSLR too. I probably would not use a P&S with a flash as the flash I have I think is bigger than that camera so I might as well take the DSLR...