Nikon LS18

I finally got a camera, the Nikon LS18. Reasonable camera that has most of the features that I was looking for, such as macro, flash-fill or second curtain flash, sdhc support.

There's two big pluses going for it, it uses AA batteries which is pretty easy to get a hold of, and supports sdhc the high capacity standard. (On a side note I found out that they have come out with a spec for terrabyte size cards!)

The major drawbacks is that this camera uses a plastic body, and the download software is slower. It seems that it must go through all the card contents before it can show it to you, which works unlike the canon software. Since I like keeping old foto's on the camera's card, this can be a problem.

There is a slight bumpup in resolution (8m instead of 7m) from my old Canon SD550. Also there isn't much in the way of manual modes (apeture or shuttle priority). The face detection system didn't work that great (doesn't detect faces on photo's which other cameras can, but I can't be sure that's that big a problem), and unlike other systems, seems to only find one face.

As a cheap camera that can take pictures though, so far it fits the bill.