The Fuji F20 ... or perhaps the F31 for my wife. She wants to do indoor, no-flash photography of our cats, and our granddaughter (among other things), and with her tremor, the "image stabilization" (it's not real image stabilization, but rather an automatic bump of the ISO number-equivalent, such that the shutter speed is automatically sped up to eliminate jitter; Cannot has no such feature, regardless of what the marketing geniuses call it) and low light capabilities of these two win for her. YMMV.

The F31 has some kind of facial recognition thinger that causes it to adjust the aperature such that faces are supposedly always properly exposed. She's interested in that, but I'm not sure its worth the approx 130 dollar bump in price vs. the F20. The difference between the F20 and F30 are:

- the F20 has a lower resolution viewer LCD (but is the same physical size as the F30)

- the F30 goes to ISO 3200, the F20 to ISO 2000. Most reviewers state that the F30 at 3200 is basically useless (too much noise-to-signal), and that ISO 2000 is about the useful limit for either camera (they both share the same imaging engine)

- the F30 has a pseudo "manual" mode, which again, most reviewers state is about as useful as a toothache

- the F30 is about 50 dollars more expensive.

So it all comes down to whether she really wants the facial recognition geegaw or not. (I find it interesting that she'd even consider it, as she finds our Nikon N70 to be "too complicated" for her Luddite tastes....) If she does really want it, the extra money is not a deterent.