Originally Posted by kai

PloddinTod- if you haven't yet made a purchase, i'll throw in my 2 cents, 3 weeks late:

we've had a cannon digital elph as our point & shoot pocket sized camera since 2002. we beat on it pretty bad, and the technology has completely left it in the dust by now. in 2002, 2 mega pixels was kind of special for a compact camera, but now I think that same model - or the equivalent is now 3 or 4 mega pixels, and is more economical than when we got ours.

at any rate, the only problem we've had is that the battery in our digital elph no longer holds a charge- at all (and after 3 years- who can blame it?). a replacement battery will cost about $20. We have taken that camera everywhere. to the beach, to active volcanoes. snow boarding. snowshoeing. to our wedding. in the rain, in freezing new england winters and hot texas summers. everywhere. i almost hate to bury it.

but, alas, we are burying it. we just purchased the cannon digital rebel, because we can interchange our SLR cannon lense with the digital rebel camera body. I don't need anything as fancy as the 20D or 10D (and, since i'm unemployed again, because we moved again, we couldn't/shouldn't afford those bigger guys anyway). we started out looking for a new battery for our little elph, and voila, we bought a 6.3 mega pixel digital SLR. imagine that. Damn amazon, their rebates, and their incentives. oops.

but at any rate, we're excited (and i have to TEN WHOLE DAYS). but now I'm looking for opinions on compact flash cards- sizes, brands, etc... any input would be appreciated.