the power shot sd780 is PERFECT digital camera for a food blogger whose life is mostly about dining out (as opposed to cooking at home, styling food, and setting up fancy shots at home, though under those kind of ideal conditions, it takes sensational pictures). Dining out means the camera has to do well under low(er) light and be small and compact enough to carry around.

For 12.1mp AND an HD VIDEO CAM!!! it is the tiniest camera i've seen, which means it can fit into an evening clutch on your next cocktail party events in the pocket of your boy's jeans when you're traipsing through the county fair, or in (god forbid) a fanny pack) when you're at the hollywood bowl (i may or may not have ever work a fanny pack tot he hollywood bowl).

Incidentally, I have owned canon powershot series digital cameras for as long as i've been using digital cameras and when my last one, canon sd1000 finally had a breakdown, i thought maybe it was time to "graduate" to a digital SLR, but after deep, deliberate, careful consideration of about two minutes, I tossed the ides asking "why?" unless you plan to go semi pro with your photography, you can take good enough pictures with a compact, point-nshoot. you just have to learn how to use the meanual settings, which takes all of about 15 minutes, as opposed to learning how to use a digital slr, which takes years.

LOVE. THIS. CAMERA. (and i got it on MAD SALE at amazon for just over $200)