Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 17 years and 4 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

My trusty three-year old Canon Powershot A70 had been sent back to Canon for CCD repair twice (under recall) and was still working relatively well, but my wife surprised me this Christmas with the new Canon Powershot SD600 Digital Elph. The 6-megapixel SD600 is officially the smallest digital camera I have owned (even smaller than my Treo 650) and has all the great features I’m used to from the A70, plus a few new ones.

I’ve only been playing with it a few days, but so far I like it a lot. The smaller size took some getting used to (the A70 was very easy to use one-handed due to the hand grip (battery compartment) on the right side), and I still end up holding it to my face in the slightly wrong position to look through the view-finder, but being able to slip it in a pocket is worth the trouble. I usually don’t bother with digital zooms, but the 12x digital zoom (3x optical) seems to work very well and my pictures looked very clear.