My wife is really getting into photography now. She has been taking courses online with a friend of hers. We have a Nikon D80 and love it but she wanted a small camera to just take in her purse when she is out with the kids.

I bought her the Canon Powershot SD1000, $225 at CircuitCity.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Canon...oductDetail.do

This camera is very nice and takes great pictures for how small it is. I also bought a new Sandisk Extreme III 1GB SD card. We already ahve a 2GB card in the Nikon.

Here is a review:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/ca...ew/index.shtml

Check out the video that they took with it. I tried it and it takes great short videos in AVI format. She will probably not use this function much but it is nice to have.

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/ca...w/MVI_0048.AVI

The best part is that the wife was thrilled and now I will probably get the new Dewalt 18V combo kit!!

 

I just bought my wife a small Sony for Mother's Day. Something that she could stick in her purse to catch those moments where you might not have your camera.

Hers is the Sony W80 and it seems to be a pretty good camera.

 

I have an older Sony DSC F505V, it's the Cyber shot series high end P&S. I've won many awards and competitins with it, dollar for dollar it's earned more money than any other camera. The pictures that come out are spectacular color and sharpness.

I also have a little Kodak easy share thats the throw around camera. Not that of pics. but captures the moment.

BlueFlareside, that is an EXCELENT video for a still camera. WOW

In July my studio is giving us potographers a Nikon LD1, it's a custom Camera Nikon is building for us using I belive the D50 body. These will have a hand held touch screen and bar code scanner. I cant wait to play with it, I'm like a kid waiting for christmas.

 

I agree. I could not believe the video quality. It looks better than my Sony Digital Camcorder.

We love our Nikon D50 and will always use it for the more professional shots.