Let me introduce you to the new love of my life...

I'm going to name her Alice. She can be cousins to my sister-in-law's Kitchen Aid mixer, Betty.

Look what Alice can do -

After using one of these for 4 years, I just wanted something more.

It was OK, but blah.

Turn on, point, shoot.

Blah.

Now imagine a camera like that on steroids - that's what I wanted.

I wanted a camera that could do more stuff. Like shoot video.

(I'm constantly juggling a camera, a video camera and a baby on my lap)

One that had some manual controls, so I could choose the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus & Zoom like a paparazzi...but still had that little green AUTO button that would do all the thinking for me when I felt lazy.

However I didn't want to spend over $500 for a SLR.

After spending 6 hours of my life on Cnet & reading reviews on Amazon,

I decided this was the camera for me.

because I wanted to capture images like this.

Alice is a Canon Powershot SX20-IS.