New camera

Just got a Canon A700. It's got most of what I've been looking for in a point-n-shoot. Canon had most of this stuff in the ELPH series last year, but I held off for them to move the new generation stuff into an A series; I had a digital ELPH before and it was OK but really too small for my liking and I didn't like the short battery life. Also I think the A series is pretty bulletproof.

So K's claimed the old S30, which is still a damn fine camera, just limited by 3 megapixels and 3x zoom.

- boots up much faster than my old camera (less stuff missed waiting for the camera)
- relatively long zoom (6x, about 35-210 equivalent)
- standard batteries (two AAs)
- more compact than my last camera
- Nice resolution (6MP, totally sufficient IMHO)
- real usable movie mode (DVD quality, 30FPS, goes until the card is full; actually a real alternative to carrying an actual video camera, at least for short, "what if" use)
- super macro (1cm focus)

Sample of that last: we had this spider on our kitchen sink this afternoon. He was about one-eighth of an inch long. He's so CUTE! And he can jump about 2 inches.