Smaller isn't always better...when it comes to Point & Shoots

Nowadays everyone is soooooooooooooooooooo excited by small. Smaller cell phones, smaller laptops AND smaller cameras. But did you know that the darling, credit card slim camera won't take photos of the same quality as it's slightly bulkier brethren? Sorry, it's the truth.

Point and shoot cameras have very small image sensors that actually record the photo. The smaller the sensor the "smaller" the image quality. Really, smaller sensor = lower quality. Photo sensors stacked on top of each other, scrunched up in the tiniest of spaces start interfering with one another.

So...you want the smallest, cutest, sassiest little camera on the market? No worries. You're more than welcome to purchase it and enjoy it. The resulting photographs might not be as sharp, as clear, as colorful as those you'd take with a larger point and shoot.

If you're only planning to share your photos online, via e-mail, in slide shows, on a site like Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr, yadda, yadda, etc., then you're fine with just about any point and shoot. You can probably even print out snapshot sized photos (4x6) with little to no issue.

If you need to carry your camera in your back pocket or in the smallest compartment in your purse or backpack, then the smalles point and shoot camera is the best choice for you. Because, really, the camera you will carry with you to capture those memories and photo ops is the best camera around, no matter the size.