A good choice if you want something with more features than a regular point and shoot – Just bought a Canon G12 for my husband. I use an SLR but he isn't confident enough with all the manual settings to use it. I liked the G12 because it has fully automatic settings but allows you to play with and learn the manual settings if you'd like. I liked that the screen shows you the changes in settings (i.e. if you change the shutter speed the image gets lighter and darker before you actually take the shot). Lightweight, lots of features that make it easily customisable, easy to use Canon menu Slow(ish) shooting when taking multiple shots