Canon Powershot 550

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I will always remain faithful to my Canon Digital Rebel and use that primarily for all my work, however, sometimes a girl doesn’t want to lug a big camera around or look like a tourist. So I had to go small and luckily Canon came to the rescue again.

Why I love this camera (besdies the 7.1megapixle factor!) is that the LCD screen is amazingly large - probably the largest of any small camera. It has terrific manual and automatic controls, it’s size enough so that you can hold it without camera shake but small enough to fit into your pocket. The zoom works wonderful, the response is fast and all in all it’s a great little camera to always have around.