I’m in need of a camera. I need a decent one with which I can take more than just a few pictures before it dies on me. It probably is the battery, but the camera being such an old one, it’s not even worth getting the battery for it. I have been pondering about it quite some time now, and since my finance will not allow me to get any excess in life such as a camera –yes, I have my priorities straight on this point– I got to a point of throwing my hands up and saying maybe in a couple of years.

Then just yesterday, I received an email from Thankyou Network, which I had forgotten about. I knew I had a reason why I switched to using my bank debit card instead of cash every chance I get, but I had forgotten what the reason was.

I eagerly went to their website to see if I could get a decent point-and-shoot camera with it. I knew I don’t spend enough money to accrue points to be eligible to get a fancy pants DSLR, but I should be able to get something that has more than 5X optical zoom, lets me decide when to use the flash or not, and has an image stablizer since my hands are on the unsteady side to put it mildly. I was a little disappointed at my total points and the eligible cameras in my points range, but it’s much better than the sorry excuse of a camera I have now, not to mention IT’S FREE!

I narrowed it down to, or more precisely, picked the top two cameras which satisfy all of the above conditions:

1. Sony Cybershot DSC-H10 – 8.1MP, 10X Optical Zoom, Super Steady Shot
2. Canon Powershot SX110IS – 9MP, 10X Optical Zoom, Image Stablizer

According to the reviews, Sony DSC-H10 looks to be the better of the two, but I prefer SD memory cards to Sony memory sticks. But then again, I’m not too thrilled about the fact that Canon SX110IS uses alkaline batteries, which more or less would run out every 100 or so shots. Decisions… Decisions…