cameras galore

A couple of people have asked me what digital cameras I use on a regular basis:

• Canon Powershot S400 - small, compact digital with a 4.0 megapixel CCD and a 3x zoom. I take this with me pretty much everywhere. Great for taking snapshots but not so good for more artistic shots where you need some manual control.
  
• Canon Powershot G2 - compact "prosumer" digital camera with a 4.0 megapixel CCD and a 3x zoom. This camera is about the size of a small paperback book and weighs as much as a Harry Potter novel. It's quite hefty but has a fold out LCD display and some great manual controls for artistic shots. My two gripes about this camera: it's slow to start up, and it has a very limited zoom (3x).
  
• Canon EOS-10D - digital SLR camera with a 6.3 megapixel CCD and the ability to attach any Canon EF-mount lens to it. This is by far my favorite camera. With the right lens, you can take some really awesome photos. It's quite heavy so you can't take it everywhere.
  
• Canon EOS-1Ds - expensive ($8,000!), professional digital camera with a 11 megapixel CCD and the ability to attach any Canon EF-mount lens to it. This camera is a behemoth; it's nearly 50% larger and heavier than the Canon EOS-10D. The photos that you can take with this camera are poster-quality and can easily be published in any magazine, but it's hard to use and the trying to access any of the more obscure features requires an hour with the user manual.
  
• Kodak CX4200 - cheap point-&-shoot digital camera with a 2.0 megapixel CCD and no zoom. I paid $99 for it at a Day-After-Thanksgiving-Sale at Best Buy and the photos from it are OK, but not crips and sharp like my other Canon cameras. I take this with me on the ski slopes, to the beach, or anywhere else I have a good chance of breaking a camera.

What's my favorite camera? It depends on what types of photos I want to shoot and where I'm shooting them. If I'm shooting my friend's wedding, I'll use the EOS-1Ds. If I'm trying to take quick snapshots, I'll use the S400. For most other things, I use the EOS-10D.