Which Digital Camera Should I Buy?

Which digital camera should I buy, is a pretty open ended question. It's the kind of question that begs the asking of other questions. Questions like: "How much money to you want to spend?" . . . "What do you like to take pictures of?" . . . "How much do you know about photography?" . . . "What kind of cameras have you owned before?" . . . and so on, and so on. Since obviously, I don't know your answers to any of the previous questions, I'm going to assume a few typical answers. From those assumptions, I've come up with three typical buyer persona's. Just for the fun of it, let's call those personas Britney, Paris, and Lindsay. Let's see what would be the best cameras for each of them to purchase.
Let's start with Britney. Brit doesn't have a big budget, but is looking to spend no more than $150, and takes pictures mostly of family, friends, and pets. She's never owned a digital camera before, and the whole prospect of spelunking through mountains of digital camera reviews and technical sales speak just sounds boring. She'd like to have a camera that's fairly portable, so it can slip into a pocket, purse, or backpack. Britney plans on loading the pictures up to her computer, iPod Touch, and maybe her Facebook and MySpace accounts. Ease of use is important, as she basically just wants to be able to pull the camera out of her pants pocket and take a few pics on the spur of the moment.
What Britney is looking for, and something that a lot of younger YouTube generation types would like is termed an ultra-compact digital camera. A small low profile camera that's easy to use, and can be tucked away into any small corner of your clothes or bag. Something like a Canon PowerShot SD1000 7.1MB Digital Elph, a Canon PowerShot SD750 7.1MB Digital Elph, or a Sony Cybershot DSCW55 7.2MP Digital Camera would fit the bill here. Just enough functionality, size, and cool factor for a card carrying member of the YouTube crowd.

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