My girlfriend received a Canon A3100 IS at my company's holiday party this year. She already has a digital camera she bought about a year ago, and after comparing the two models, she gave me the Canon. I had actually been looking for a new digital camera: looking at DSLRs, knowing I shouldn't spend $500 on a camera, and then trying to find a "point-and-shoot" cigarette pack-sized one to buy as a consolation. The A3100 IS sells for around $100 I guess, and the specs on cameras in that price range have improved a lot in the last 5-6 years.
I bought a Fujifilm Finepix F601 Zoom in 2004 or 2005, used, for probably around $120 on Ebay. It was a 3.1 mp camera, with a "Super CCD III sensor" which increased the resolution of a photo to 6.0 megapixels... supposedly. I got a lot of use out of that camera, but there were artifacts in a lot of the photos, and after a while I put it away unless we went on trips. It was disused to the point where the rechargeable battery was constantly dying (running down and no longer holding a charge). This is not necessarily because it was a crappy or obsolete camera, but more because I've taken a lot less photos in the last four years or so.
So I've been "trying out" the A3100 IS for the last month or so, and I really like it -- by "trying out" I mean taking photos of cats. Liking this camera has something to do with it being free, but also because it takes really good photos without the flash using the Auto setting. I'm not a photographer, so if there are shutter speed and other settings on this camera, I haven't made use of them yet. I don't, however, use a flash unless absolutely necessary, such as in near total darkness, and the photos taken with the A3100 are much better and less blurry when not using the flash than previous cameras I've used.
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