Looking for a good point and shoot camera

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Swig, maybe I have just been unlucky and/or clumsy, but I think that the "tough" aspect of the Pentax would be very useful for anyone who is using the camera for more than a trip to Disneyland. Things fall, bags get tossed around; I don't want to spend my whole trip worrying about babying my camera. As for photo quality, it might not be so great, but who prints photos anymore anyways?

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Swig, maybe I have just been unlucky and/or clumsy, but I think that the "tough" aspect of the Pentax would be very useful for anyone who is using the camera for more than a trip to Disneyland. Things fall, bags get tossed around; I don't want to spend my whole trip worrying about babying my camera. As for photo quality, it might not be so great, but who prints photos anymore anyways?

Well you have to pick some criterion. For $100 you are getting a disneyland camera that is basically "disposable" in the sense that you buy a new one if it breaks. Are you going to spend $200-300 for the exact same quality? For me that would be ---eV.

If you want more from a camera, what is your purpose? Fast action, low light, quality? As you said nobody prints, which is true for 99% of the population, so quality is out. But how much are you willing to pay? The camera Jack linked to is $650. The canon s100 is $350. People think this is an outrageous price for a camera, but you couldn't get a digital for $400 10 years ago and now that's top of the line for a point N shoot.

I sort of get the desire for a waterproof, and if you're only posting to facebook it's fine, but you're still looking at $250 (last I checked).