I try to carry a camera on me at all times, and most of the time it's just not practical to have my "rig," as I like to call it, with me. Sure I could keep it in the trunk of my car often, but that's not really the best place for it and years of living in New York has made me just paranoid of theft enough to know better. Back in the 90's I had a Canon Elph APS camera (remember that format?). And over the past five years I've gone through a number of consumer point-and-shoot digital cameras, always coming back to the Canon Powershots which are kind of the descendent of the Elph. I've dallied over to Olympus (very nice, but I got tired of the xD memory card) and even Casio (definitely a form over function camera) but I find I just plain prefer the Canon's and my most recent point-and-shoot is their new SD1000 which is definitely pocketable. So far it's been a great camera to have with me at all times. Because you just never know when you're going to come across something you don't see every day.