Which Digital Camera

[Uppsala9496]

I know this gets brought up a lot, but I can't decide which camera to get. I've read all the review site's, and am still undecided.
The 4 I've narrowed it down to:

Fuji F440 - not a fan of the xD card.
Pentax S50 - I have some 128MB MMC cards, and lots of good rechargable AA's.
Casio EXZ40 - Nice and small
Canon SD110 - small, proprietary battery is a con though.

I am looking for something on the smaller side to take with me on vacation. I have a Canon A70 that recently broke, and they (canon) want $105-$200 to fix it, or for $160 will exchange a refurd A70 for mine. It's a simple broken pin in the memory card slot. I am going to Dublin, Ireland in 2 weeks, and just don't have the time to wait for the repair. So, I'm looking for a small camera that takes good photo's (will be spending a lot of time in pubs) that I can put in my pocket.
I don't want to spend more than $250 since I will eventually have to shell out $105+ to get my A70 fixed.

Any suggestions?

 

[ironcrotch]

Add a poll

 

[Uppsala9496]

poll added.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Bump.

 

[Byte]

take a look at these instead:
Canon SD300
Panasonic FX7
Minolta X50

 

[Uppsala9496]

Aren't those 3 up around $350?

 

[dr150]

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/P150/P15A.HTM

 

[Uppsala9496]

Originally posted by: dr150
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/P150/P15A.HTM

Way too expensive!!

 

[Uppsala9496]

No votes for the Casio?

 

[NutBucket]

nope. My friend has used it a few times at work as was very unimpressed. Course, he now shoots a D70 so who knows But really, he didn't like it one bit and the image quality was sub par.

 

[onza]

http://www.anandtech.com/digit...as/showdoc.aspx?i=2230

AT did a review on those cams

enjoy

i own the casio.. and i like it, overall the canon took the lead though.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Thanks for the link to the review. Never knew it was out there!!

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: Byte
take a look at these instead:
Canon SD300
Panasonic FX7
Minolta X50

I'd vote for the Panasonic FX7

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: ttown

Originally posted by: Byte
take a look at these instead:
Canon SD300
Panasonic FX7
Minolta X50

I'd vote for the Panasonic FX7

2nd the Panny FX-7 (only compact to offer optical image stabilization--worth it's weight in gold)

Panny Picture Samples

 

[Byte]

I currently have the X50, its pretty good for its size. I'm also going to get a FX7 or SD300 whichever i can find first. I love playing with cameras and the mini ones have gotten pretty neat. check out the movies you can make with teh SD300

http://www.dcresource.com/revi...300-review/index.shtml

 

[faenix]

Canon for sure.