canon powershot S5 IS. it was $100 off yesterday only at futureshop. woohoo! it's the one i've been looking at for the past 6 weeks.
http://canon.ca/english/index-products.asp?lng=en&prodid=1215&sgid=23&gid=2&ovr=1

Very nice indeed.

were you the one looking for advice a couple of weeks ago and i told you to get this one?

Very nice! I'm assuming this is a post your camera thread, so here's what I'm shooting with:

Nikon D50
18-55mm lens
70-300mm lens
Nikon SB-400 Flash
Sandisk Ultra-II 2GB SD
Various Tripods and such

I shoot everything in RAW, and convert and do post in CS3.

cool.

2 questions.
1 - how do you like that 70 - 300mm lens? the mother of my children wants to get one and she wants to use it for zoom. neither of us is really sure what kind of zoom she's going to get out of it.
2 - shooting in RAW is for pro's wanting to do their own editing afterwards. she doesn't do any post editing at the moment (maybe red eye removal and cropping). can you suggest a sample scene to really show the difference in shooting in RAW as opposed to jpg so we can see the difference?

Here's some of my stuff I've shot with it:

I'm about to run out to a job, but I can take some pics when I get back to show the difference between the lenses. The difference between RAW and JPEG isn't that big as far as the clarity of the image, but you have more control once you get it into photoshop since you are dealing with the raw sensor data and not a compressed image.

I will say I don't use the 70-300mm that much, except for the macro mode (the picture above with the bee and flower was taken that way) and I almost wish I would have gotten a 18-200mm instead.

I would prefer to shoot in the maximum resolution possible. It's just so much nicer to have more freedom with what you can do. If you're shooting in 1024x768 jpg, that's the biggest it's going to get. You get a decent memory card and you shoot ridiculously massive pictures, and you can crop it and still have something desktop sized, or you can print it out on 8x11 paper- you just have a lot more freedom.

wut?

jpg and raw are both at the same resolution.

Aertwork.

that road is perfect for some car shots