While it's quite often hard, to get a decent fair, and unbiased review on anything online, digital cameras seem particularly tricky.
There's no shortage of fly by night websites hawking the next greatest camera on the planet, since Polaroid invented the Polaroid.
Well, there is one thing that is hard to fake online, and is actually pretty easy to find online, if you know where to look.
That one thing is consumer choice.
By consumer choice, I mean of course what are the people buying.
We as a consumer society, vote with our dollars, as just about any product that finds favor with the masses will continue to make it's manufacturers rich.
It's easy to find the best selling cameras, simply by looking at the bigger online camera sellers, and see what they have on their front page.
Some will even have lists of their top ten, twenty, or fifty cameras listed for you.
If everyone else is buying those cameras, there must be a good reason.
Here's a few select choices I found from on of my favorite shopping sites.
Most of these are compact cameras, as that's by far the most popular category.
First of all, we have the Canon PowerShot SD1100IS digital camera.
It's got plenty of resolution, with 8MP, and some nice features like image stabilization and optical zoom.
It goes for about $150 these days.
Secondly we have the PowerShot SD880IS from Canon.
It's a few more bucks, at around $250, but comes with 10MP, a 4 times zoom lens, and a few other nice features.
It's not unusual to see so many Canon cameras dominate a top list, as they are the biggest camera seller in the world.
Most of the cameras I saw listed were from Canon.
If your considering a SLR, the top selling SLR I saw was the Canon Rebel XSi.
For only about $700, including a 18-55mm lens, that's a great deal.