Hmm, that 1000IS doesn;t look too bad, I saw a couple referbs for under $100.
I absolutley do not want anything with a lithium ion battery, if I had all my gear that way I'd need dozens of chargers not to mention replacing batteries all the time as they age.
My wife has a nice camera, a Canon S3 IS, its our big camera we take anywhere, a neat feature of it is it will take pictures while its taking video so places where picture camera were ok but video isn't it was a nice stealth video camera, take a couple stills to make the flash and they never knew it. They have revised it up to like an s6 now but switched to the lithuim ion so were going to hang on to the current one for a while.
I'm wanting somehting I could mount on my bike handlebars too so if I would crash and break it its not a big deal.

If you have independent camera repairmen around, ask them for a bargain. If they receive cameras that are beyond economic repair, some will buy them for parts, then repair the camera hoping to sell on spec. I got a the old Canon for a song.
KEH.com has always been especially good to me for used equipment. Usual disclaimers: I am only a customer.

There is a guy here at the office that does that, buys three or four broken ones on ebay and swaps parts around to get a couple good ones. I may have to do it too.

My blackberry camera It has an 8gb card, lots of available space for pics and movies.

I used to EDC a camera but not anymore, and I did use it in a car accident too. great to have.

I was looking at the Canon SD780 IS the other day. I can't decide whether to pic it up or get one of the more expensive Olympus Tough series cameras. That little Canon is as pocketable as any I've seen, has an optical viewfinder for backup and it even shoots 720p video and has a HDMI output. My primary camera is also a Canon so the GUI is familiar for me and the DW.

Sure - 90% of cell phones have at least a mediocre camera built in. But in my day pack I carry my Canon A650 IS, a 4AA, 12mp camera that IMHO is the cat's meow with it's rotating view screen.

I am on construction sites all the time as part of my work so it just makes sense to document everything. It also came in handy when some "baby-on-board" twit rear ended my vehicle. I was able to document the evidence including his very short skid marks before hitting me! Needless to say, HIS insurance paid for the repairs and car rental, etc. and he picked up the deductible.

Luckily for me, I didn't have a back or neck injury from his carelessness.

But even the timestamp isn't always necessary. Cameras also write meta information attached to the file itself -- the date/time, exposure settings and model number. I suppose someone could photoshop a timestamp pretty easily but then they would also have to edit the meta information.

I hate when people post pics with that ugly time stamp on the picture like an antique film camera, its there in the exif data so there is no need to make the pictures ugly.

Nice to have in car, in case of an accident.

I live in an urban environment and EDC a mini digital cam for fun. My cell phone has a cam too. Never know when that UFO might show up!

Speaking of meta information... I noticed that my BlackBerry 8330 (Sprint) has an option to geotag pictures. (IIRC the built in camera is only 2 megapixels. ) The default setting is geotagging=off but it's any easy to find option and it's nice to know it's there.