Compact Camera suggestions

[Brown.]

Need a decent compact for a holiday comming up, not usually my thing compacts so i know nothing, i dont want to spend over £300. fancying the panasonic DMC-TZ5 or the Richo R8..... simply for the zoom range.

What do people have and what have you found with your images?

 

[Brown.]

mod delete.

 

[GR7]

I bought my daughter a Panasonic Lumix camera at Christmas for around £185 and it
takes really good clear pictures! It is a 10 megapixel digital camera with a 5x optical
zoom lens and it's said to have more features than any other pocket sized camera!
It has a good macro on it and is easy to use and is also great for taking movie clips!

There's a bit about it here::
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Panasonic-DMC-FX500-10254

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/FX500/FX500A.HTM

 

[Brasseye]

Dmc Tz5 is good......

Been using mine for 5 months now...

Low light response is poor but all compacts are compared to Dslr

Better than my Fuji E900 in all ways

 

[McBunny]

wife has the tz4 exactly the same except for hd video mode

 

[dunganick]

Sony, Canon, Panasonic

These are the 3 most reliable brands i see sold.

Had 6 sony compacts in the house so far, not had one problem with them, downside being they use Pro Duo, which is over priced and unlikely to work with anything else of yours. Info Lithium Batteries are an excellent idea, which dont more brands do this!

The Canons are a bit bulky for what they are and low light performance is not as good as i would expected. But well put together and very rarely see problems with them.

The panasonics ive never owned, but having used them for ages at work they seem the best put together, well thought out. The larger models have quite a weight to them, but they seem to hold their own at the longer optical 'zooms'

Im not sure for a compact you couldnt go too far wrong with any of the above.

 

[StephenJ]

my kodak compact camera is up for sale if anyone else if after one?