In a huge week for camera announcements, Canon is the latest company to unleash details about its upcoming line of point-and-shoot models for 2009. It announced ten new Canon PowerShot cameras this week, spanning the company's popular and fashion-conscious SD line, the high-zoom SX line, and the entry-level A line. Canon also unveiled the first in a brand-new, weatherproof D line of PowerShots.

The big news here seems to be Canon's Digic 4 image processor, which the company says enhances the new cameras' automated setting-optimization features. All but one of the ten announced cameras features the Digic 4 processor.

While it isn't the most spec-packed addition to Canon's 2009 PowerShot line, the slick PowerShot SD780 IS (below) might just be the best-looking camera ever to grace the planet.

The skimpy 3X optical zoom notwithstanding (33mm to 100mm), the 12-megapixel SD780 IS does have decent features: optical image stabilization, a "Smart Auto" mode that optimizes settings automatically based on the shooting environment, face detection, blink detection, motion detection, red-eye removal, and a 720p HD movie mode with HDMI output.