Camera change: SD790 IS

The camera I have been using for this blog, as well as for past 8 or so years of my life, is this bad boy.

It was a state-of-the-art camera back when I bought it.  $599, 3 megapixels, took the original powder-purple memory stick.  It still works, possibly like the day it was bought.  It has gotten some accessory upgrades, of sorts.  I gave it the biggest memory stick it can take (128MB--a joke by today's standards) and swapped the battery.  It is built like a tank.  It really feels like a block of aluminum--perhaps I should describe it more later, and share some stories with it.

So, yeah, after Christmas, I took a deep breath and bought a new digital camera.  I needed one.  I did have a Canon S5 for a short while, but I found it too big to carry around.

After much pondering and reading more reviews than I probably should, I settled on a camera.

So this is what I got--a Canon SD790 IS.

I did not want to carry around something heavy, and I have heard (read?) good things about it, and Amazon had it on sale (albeit for mere $10 less than usual) so I jumped on it.

So far, it feels okay.  It is about as heavy as DSC-P5, but somehow... it feels like there is more plastic involved in this camera.

I would also like to mention that the back buttons, while oddly shaped and feeling inspired by RAZR, works.  Problem, though, is that all but one buttons lack discernable feedbacks.  You know, the "click" feeling you get once you push a button.  The RAZR buttons have none.  Except one, to the lower right.  It feels like crap.  The wheel buttons feel excellent, though.

That's my first impression.  Expect me to talk more about it as I get more used to the camera.