which digital compact?

[Shane]

I'm looking for a digital compact in the £100 - £150 range.
Needs to be as thin as possible with a good optical zoom.

Any suggestions?

 

[DollyBuster]

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T7

 

[Outlaw]

Heres 2 too look at both very good Point and Shoots. At good prices, and from a high street store.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...tography>C$cip=1500011809.Digital+cameras.htm

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...tography>C$cip=1500011809.Digital+cameras.htm

 

[Chewy]

Bought our lass a Fuji finepix F50fd for Xmas last year, came in at the top end of your budget back then, probably reduced somewhere now? She's well chuffed with it.

 

[Slapo]

Canon PowerShot A570 IS and Canon PowerShot A590 IS seem to be within the price range and they have manual controls, IS and are fairly compact.
I haven't used any of them, but samples on the Internet look like they're fairly standard pocket digicams otherwise.

 

[joodles]

The Ixus range is generally good cameras - the 82 looks good, the 70 and 75 were good but all with a three times optical zoom but in budget. I've got a FX33 which I'm very happy with, it's small, slim and takes wicked pics but again only 3x zoom (but a 28mm wide angle AND a Leica lens ). If you're looking for something very slim with as much zoom as possible then maybe look into the Olympus C-560 - it's very slim with a 5x optical zoom and large screen.. have fun!

 

[MKD]

If you fancy squeezing that price up to £171 you can get a Canon IXUX 860 IS which is the business, just got one because I cracked the screen on my Canon IXUS 400 and am well pleased. I bought My mum the Canon IXUS 82 IS (Just Jessop’s) and she is very pleased with it and has been out and about quite a bit and got some very good shots with it (she is 85).