New digicam coming up

Besides my plan for buying a DSLR after finishing my study in spring 2007, I renew my property of a compact digital camera. After my first one, a Canon PowerShot A70 at Christmas 2003, I went over to the Canon Digital IXUS 750 last February, as I wanted to have a more compact camera, which I also could take easily with me on a bike-tour. But I soon noticed that it had to be categorized as a style camera and I was soon missing the enhanced possibilities for photographing, such as time-automatic or aperture-automatic, which now lead me to selling the IXUS at eBay and planning to buy the new Canon PowerShot A710 IS. This is a not-so-compact model again, but—to debilitate the compactness criteria—it won’t waste too much space in my bike-saddle bag anyway if I just wrap it in a plastic bag. What I get is a twice as high zoom (6x instead of 3x) and the very Image Stabilizer for high focal-lengths or long exposures.