My first stop was at the Canon website since so far every camera I've owned has been a Canon. Did you know that they have 26 different models of point-and-shoot cameras? To make things worse, they all are pretty much the same; one may have one more scene mode, while another has a faster shutter speed and a third one has different focal lengths. Choosing what I wanted was not going to be easy.
So I went to Facebook and posted on my status that I was looking for a new camera. Comments poured in with suggestions from several friends and made me think of other brands and models. I have never had as many comments on a status as this one. So with their advice in mind I went back to the Canon website and picked the models I wanted.
The next step was to visit a store where I could touch and play with the cameras I had in mind. So off to an electronics mega-store I went and was happy to find out they had the models I was interested on display. Two minutes playing with them was enough for me to decide that I was not going to get either of them: the controls were a little fidgety for my taste.
But I was already at the store, so I decided I might look at other models my friends had recommended and I had vetoed. Wise decision, since two of the models that I discarded only because I thought they were too big to fit in my pocket turned out to not be too big at all (or maybe my pockets are not as small as I thought). They had the one I liked in stock so I left the store with my brand new point and shoot camera.
And, as usual, it was a Canon.
