Which camera for girlfriend ????????

[PJ]

Hi all,
My girlfriend's birthday is comming up in a week and I'd like to get her a poing and shoot Canon.

I've got a Drebel and I'm waiting on a 20D but my Drebel would be way too much camera for her. I don't know much about Canons P&S so I turn to you all. Can someone reccomend a model that is currently for sale in stores for around $350 or less that might suit her.

Is the Canon Powershot SD10 Digital Elf any good?

It would mainly be used for Snapshots of various events/people/things.
Nothing professional.

Thanks

PJ

[Ikinaa]

Hi all,
My girlfriend's birthday is comming up in a week and I'd like to get her a poing and shoot Canon.

I've got a Drebel and I'm waiting on a 20D but my Drebel would be way too much camera for her. I don't know much about Canons P&S so I turn to you all. Can someone reccomend a model that is currently for sale in stores for around $350 or less that might suit her.

It would mainly be used for Snapshots of various events/people/things.
Nothing professional.

Thanks

PJ

I'm searching myself for a cam for my daughter for the birthday in december and limited my search after resarch to the powershots a70-a90 range. 3-4 megapixels, under 300 Euro/$.
I found that this range gives a good quality for money from what I've read.
They're very handy, use normal AA-batteries (no proprietary)

Hope to have helped

[fredpb]

I don't know the complete Canon P/S line. But I am NOT in favor of any camera that has a non user replaceable rechargable battery.

A simple point and shoot, without optical zoom, is the A310. I tried one out for a while. Really nice, but simple camera. Uses two AA batteries.

Next step up would be the A75. That's a nice camera with some advanced features. 4 aa batteries.

Note that rechargable Nimh batterys are best in the AA size. And when there batteries are NEW, they will not reach full capacity until after a few discharges. So it will seem that the camera eats batteries....when it is not the camera but the batteries themselves. Just charge up the batteries and put them in a cheap flashlight to discharge them.... do this two or three times and they will be ok for the cameras.