I recently purchased a Sigma DP1, a unique camera with some interesting characteristics:

• It the only compact camera with a DSLR-sized sensor (its image sensor is 7-12x larger than most compacts)
• It uses a Foveon image sensor, which captures 3-full layers of red, green, and blue (as opposed to other
  image sensors which capture only 1 layer of pixels). It can render colors quite beautifully.
• It has a fixed 28mm-equivalent wide-angle lens.

The advantage of a compact camera is that you are more likely to take it places, and it makes taking
pictures less of an "event" than with a larger SLR. Because of this my intention is to maintain a
photo-diary of sorts, keeping track of the random pictures I capture with my DP1.

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