Gift Ideas for Christmas IV

Canon PowerShot G10, $500 This model wins in the advanced point-and-shoot category. It shoots at 14.7 megapixels, has a huge 3-inch LCD monitor and offers impressive control over image capture. Pros: The manual-control fanatic will love the black bezeled dials for mode, exposure compensation and ISO settings. We loved the wide-screen mode that produced cool 16:9 ratio images. We viewed some of them on a new Westinghouse LCD high-definition TV and got jaw-dropping clarity and color. Cons: Low light and high ISO speed images can get pretty grainy. And our old standard SD memory card fit fine, but a brand new SanDisk 8-gigabyte SDHC card got stuck inside the slot at one point.