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We bought a new digital camera, Canon PowerShot S100. What I've learned from owning the previous digital camera, Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 is that a camera must be small enough to be carried around freely and to make occasional practical use. In this respect Digital Mavica was a failure although as a digital gadget it was a nice piece of technical achievement, a battery operated floppy disk drive built into a digital camera. I will certainly continue to keep the unit as one of my gadget collection.
Canon PowerShot S100 is small. Being small is the biggest feature of this camera. Though it is small technical advancement brought 2.1 million pixels resolution to this small body where the bigger Digital Mavica had only 0.38 million pixels. See the next two pictures and you'll be impressed how small it is. Compare its size with a floppy disk placed on the side of the camera. The old Mavica had a built-in floppy disk drive. That means the camera itself is certainly larger than the size of a floppy disk. Also the old Mavica had a fixed focus lens with no zooming capability, no lens cap, while PowerShot S100 comes with AI full auto focus and 2x zoom lens (4x with combination of 2x digital zoom) and built in lens protective shutter which closes automatically when the unit is turned off. Clicking a picture shows you a larger image although it is still a decimated image of 640 by 480 since the original image is 1600 by 1200 which is too large for most of computer displays and is wasteful from web disk usage point of view.
I've used the same trick to take these pictures as I did with Mavica(A Mavica took a Mavica). The camera is placed in front of a mirror, aiming at itself then the taken pictures are electronically flipped horizontally afterwards.
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Here is an album of some pictures taken by PowerShot S100. Click them to see 640 by 480 image. I did not place the original 1600 by 1200 images.
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