First of all, this isn’t my only camera.  It’s my go-to camera, though.  Why did I buy the sd500 and waterproof case?  Well, the case really followed the camera.  The camera?  I liked the sd400 (at the time, it was one of the best compacts out there), and this was the newer one.  And it was on sale – the sd550 had just come out.

And addition reason: I was motivated.  A burglary had relieved us of all cameras (along with the video of my daughter’s 1st birthday – I still wish eternal suffering to those bastards), and with a year-old daughter, I needed something.  The case followed that summer.