My wife uses an S-400 Digital ELPH, which replaced her film ELPH. I got her a Rebel Ti but she doesn't want to bother with film anymore and she found the Rebel too big and heavy to fit in her purse so getting her an XT would be a complete waste of money. She thinks I'm a dope for using these old fashioned cameras, every time I hand her a Leica and ask her to take a shot of me she gives me a look like she's going to throw up. She can't understand why anyone would bother aligning two transparent images inside a little rectancle when her AF does the same thing inside a little rectangle at the push of a button. She can't understand why anyone would carry 10 lbs of lenses and juggle changing them while shots get away, when her zoom reacts to the push of a button and she gets the shots I miss. She can't understand why anyone would stand in the middle of the street with a baseplate in their mouth fumbling with getting film up into the bottom of a camera every 36 shots, when her 1GB CF card holds a thousand shots and can be changed in a second. She can't understand why anyone would drive to a photo lab, return later to pick up negs, spend a couple hours scanning them, when her CF card goes straight into a slot on the printer and a print comes out in a minute or two. Most of all she can't understand why after all I go through and all I've spent, her shots are just as sharp and crisp as mine. But I love her anyway.
