No, tell us how you really feel...

Mike Johnston, over at The Online Photographer has a very helpful post on what to tell all your friends and family when they inevitably ask you which digital camera to buy. You might just want to print off copies to hand out just to save time and aggravation.

"I won't keep you in suspense. Here's the upshot: they're all shit. And I don't mean "shit" as a pseudo-hip way of registering a connoisseur's disapproval of the demotic or an enthusiast's disdain for the democratic. I mean that despite their cunning little shiny bodies and technologically marvelous innards, as cameras they're little stinking turdlets of fresh, steaming excrement. Yageddit? Poo. Stool. Just north of camera phones. And when I say they're all shit, I don't mean most of them are shit. Eighty percent of them are horrible, outrageous, awful, a swindle on the public and a fraud perpetrated on their purchasers. And the other twenty percent are really bad. Bah-dum-pah."

There is a follow-up post here, and a short list of recommendations here.