i broke down and bought a canon sd500. its a 7.1 megapixel canon elph. fairly small. good resolution. but not too many self-adjustments. its got some pre-sets, but no true manual controls. but i'm a point-and-click snapshot-er anyway. right? as a quick example: look at the salt and pepper things on the bottom left. the next slide is this same picture, but cropped around the salt and pepper ... you ready? next