Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my first-ever compact camera. It was a Canon PowerShot A80 featuring a 3x optical zoom, that I used it to capture holiday snaps, family gatherings, and parties with friends. In fact, I honed a lot of my beginner photography skills using this camera.
At the time, back in 2003, I thought it was the best camera ever. That 1.5-inch LCD screen might have been small, but the fact that it could flip out 180 degrees made it the most versatile screen I had ever experienced. The 4MP CCD sensor topped out at 4MP, and the DIGIC processor was a 1st-gen offering, but I thought it delivered pretty good results most of the time.
