After my Cannon SD-50 Camera was dropped by one of my kids, I ended up having to buy a new camera, the Sony DSC-T1. I'd been looking at this camera for a long time, but couldn't justify getting it when I had a perfectly good one already (I must be slipping in my old age, because in the past I'd of figured out a way to justify it). This camera's phenomenal. It's got a huge screen, tiny profile, great optics, a USB 2.0 interface for fast tran sfer and best of all, it does 640x480 video, so it can double as a light-use video camera. The downside is that it uses Sony's funky memory sticks, which are expensive and proprietary. By far the best camera for the money.