I bought my wife this camera to use while her (beloved) Canon S500 Elph was being repaired by Canon under a recall. She loves the pink color and the large LCD. However, she thinks it is just a little too small to hold and use comforatbly and I agree with her. The S500 is quite a bit fatter and much easier to use as a result. Another small problem is that the viewfinder window is smaller than it was on the S500. We always use the viewfinder; it saves the battery and you do not suffer from image wash out in bright sun as you do with any LCD. Canon seems the last hold out still giving you a rangefinder window with their compact cameras. The other companies seem to think that their customers like washed out images on sunny days in an LCD. Amazing that any true camera company would consider buiding a camera w/o a rangefinder.

Consumer Reports top rates this Canon SD1200 and they are right. It is the best of the bunch. Good image quality, small but manageable size, and that necessary rangefinder window.