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I went ahead and placed an order for the Canon PowerShot SD200 Digital ELPH today. I found it for $245.00 at ZipZoomFly.com (formally GoogleGear.com, but never associated with Google). I’ve purchased from ZZF before and they are great. Free 2nd Day FedEx delivery and obviously great prices.

But back to the camera. It basically has everything I was looking for: 3.2 megapixel (I don’t need more than that), 3x optical zoom, and it doesn’t use AA batteries. It also features a phat-ass 2 inch LCD screen. This is huge for such a small camera. For the camera nerds out there, it has Canon’s new DIGIC II image processor. I don’t know what that means, but II is higher than I and therefore most likely better. This is a huge step up from my 1.3 megapixel starter digital cam I picked up a few years ago.

At least four people I know own some smallish Canon camera and were more than happy to recommend them to me. There are also very positive reviews from digital camera review sites for this specific camera. These helped to ease my fears of the E18 error that I mentioned earlier this week. Either way, I can’t imagine that a quality company like Canon would let a design problem persist from generation to generation of cameras. But, I suppose we’ll see.

I should have it sometime early next week, so I’ll be sure to post what I think and some sample photos at that time.