My wife and I finally purchased a digital camera. After much research, I chose the Canon S2IS. So far I'm pleased with the results though I haven't had a chance to play with the options out in the field.
Here's one of me taking my very first image with the camera. That's me in the image. :-)
The quality isn't so good because the camera was set to Auto ISO, and I think it used the fastest, namely 400, which has unacceptable levels of noise.