I noniced a camera listed in a couple peoples EDC list when I searched. I'm interested in knowing if you EDC a camera and if so what model.
My wife EDC's our Nikon CoolPix 5600 but its only 18 months old and the battery door ir cracked and its all scratched and worn so it hasn't held up very well. Then it takes videos in quicktime format and I tried to download and install the quicktime player at my parents house only to be forced to install itunes and so much other crap that I gave up after the 12th reboot. Its also slow, the flash can take 10 seconds to re-charge which seems to be a common complaint among the <$200 P&S cameras.
So I bought her a nice high end camera, but qiality comes at a price and the price is size, she can't edc it in her purse any more. We have a pair of camera phones and the pictures are OK but low resolution, thek kind of look like the pictures you get from a Sony camera so they are not working real well as a supplement to the big camera.
So I'm going back to thinking about small pocketable cameras, maybe like the Canon digial Elpf series but all those use a propritary Lithium Ion battery so you have the up front cost of a spare battery and then have the ongoing cost of replacement batteries in a couple years. Maybe a better camera phone, are there any, most I see are VGA resolution.
So wat does everyone else use?

Actually, in a manner of speaking, I do EDC a camera. I have a blackbery pearl cell phone, and it has a camera function built into it. It isn't the greatest; the resolution is pretty good, but the flash is rather weak, and night shots can get pretty grainy.

I use it quite a bit, since it is always with me, and it interfaces with my laptop via a USB plug in. I can also use it to email or MMS the pics I take to other people thanks to having enterprise access to my business email service.

Ain't the 21st century grand?

It is 640x480 like most camera phones? Thats the resolution I'm at now so I'm looking for something whose resolution looks like its from this century
I'm finiding this Samsung A990 which has a 3.2MP camera but reiews say it lacks in useability and I had a samsung phone whose hinge broke and aparently it was a known issue with a lot of Samsung models at the time yet they refused to do anything about it.

This will be for every day use and not a use once and throw away. Though I have heard of people opening those disposables and soldering on a USB port so they could pull the pictures off themselves at home and turning it into a re-useable camera.

As a die-hard Nikon fan, I never thought I'd say this, but I EDC a Cannon Power Shot SD400 digital Elph and it takes great pictures. It is small enough to put in my pocket and comes with a nice leather case. I've been carrying it for over a year without a problem.

It does use proprietary batteries. I bought two third-party "Power 2000" batteries for about the same price as one Cannon battery. So far they are working great. I get just as many shots as with the Cannon battery.

We became a little dispointed with Nikon after this 5600. The pictures are not really any better than our old 2MP HP and its not holding up very well.
I had always stayed away from propritary betteries but am finding that the smallest cameras are too small for AA's. I don't know why they can't make them run from AAA's the mAh of those super expensive Lithium Ion's isn't any better than the 850mAh or so of an AAA. Thats why I'm wondering about the phone/camera combo, if there are any decent camera phones since phones all have the propritary battery anyway.
Then canon annoyingly uses a different prioritary battery for their camcorders which we have. Even though the specs are the same (V and mAh) its physically shaped differently so those won't interchange.

Just make sure you change them every so often. I did that, and eventually grabbed it and took some shots. They were terrible: poor resolution, grainy, muddled. I'm guessing the heat doesn't do the film any good.

I replaced it with my previous digital camera (it's not great, but oh well).Some fresh batteries are in the glove box with it.

I don't know that I would call it EDC, but I often carry a Pentax optio A10. I've had it for about a year, and so far I've been pretty happy with it. It is very small and takes good pictures, however, it sometimes had problems in low light situations. My cell phone also has a camera on it, but at only 640x480 res, it is barely worth having, but could do in a pinch.

I carry an Olympus D425 in my Jumbo. It's not very large and it takes decent pictures. It uses 2 AA batteries, which I like.

What's film?