I’ve (we’ve?) always had smaller (read: cheaper) little point and shoot cameras that I carried around in addition to the whichever ‘big’ camera I had. I like the convenience and face it, sometimes the big camera is overkill.

I recently gave away all the little cameras I had lying around. I got them in a plethora of places – I won one in an online photo contest, I was given one as a gift, I bought one five years ago. I gave them to family and friends who would appreciate them. My son was pissed as he’s the only one who doesn’t have his own camera, but I figure I can throw a cheap (but still better than the ones I had) one his way the fall for his birthday or X-mas.

My goal was to get a nice P&S camera that would essentially be Jamie’s, but that I could also slip into my pocket as a secondary camera if I felt the need.

After looking around a bit we decided on the Canon SD1100IS. Just a middle-of-the-road camera that had some decent reviews. We went with brown because we’re that damn cool.

It came this past Tuesday and with my family visiting it was a prefect trial for the camera.

I don’t have an samples available and ready to go right now, but it takes pretty nice pictures.

I also haven’t gotten to mess with it much, but there’s tons of settings to play with (I think you can even go manual) and the image stabilization and face recognition make it a great camera to stick in auto and let Jamie shoot away all day.

At least now we’ll have some photos of the family instead of just thousands of amusement park photos.