In 2001 we purchased our first Sony Cybershot Digital Still Camera (DSC-P71). This camera has photographed everything from the frosty deep-snow mornings working the winter season in Yellowstone National Park, to tolerating the heat and blowing sand of summer in Qatar (near Bahrain) while assigned there with the Air Force. If someone needs a camera, Dad will loan his out. Everyone in the family has used this camera in every situation, and it has never failed to produce photos treasured by the family.

The DSC-P71 is getting to be quite ancient in the line of Cybershots. It's body is bulky compared...