Best Point and Shoot Camera ?

[Richard Clements]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a new point and shoot camera something to put in my pocket and take snaps with, rather than the amazing stuff you guys seem to produce :)

I have a budget of around £200 what would be best?


Cheers

Richard

[pete.rush]

can't go wrong with the Canon IXUS range, Pansonic's TZ range or a Nikon. Depends what you want?

Long optical zoom, large number of Mpixels, wide angle capability, completely automatic, some manual or complete manual control of aperture/shutter. HD movie mode, there's alot to the modern P&S camera nowadays. Some preferences would help.

check out
http://www.imaging-resource.com/
and use
http://www.myproductadvisor.com/mpa/camera/inputSummary.do

Peter

[acs]

DPReview (http://www.dpreview.com/) recently did some group tests of different point and shoot cameras across different price ranges.

Budget (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q408budgetgroup/)
Ultra Compact (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q408slimgroup/)
Premium (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q408premiumgroup/)
Enthusiast (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q408enthusiastgroup/)
Super Zoom (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q109superzoomgroup/)

[Richard Clements]

Thanks guys I'm just really looking for best quality photo's more than anything.

Thanks for the links I shall have a good oread of those, as you can tell I am very new to all this.

[kennysarmy]

I am selling an S3 IS in the for sale section...might be slightly bigger than your pocket size requirements...but a good camera non the less....

:D

[akr]

We had a TZ5 which was excellent, I imagine you could now pick one of those up or maybe a TZ6 for £200 or under.

I believe the Fujis have a great rep for lowlight photography if that's an area you're looking at.