Camera suggestions up to 150quid

[RichB]

Wonder if any of the photographers here can give me some advice. Recently had a little windfall of 150 quids worth of amazon vouchers and thinking I could get a new digital to replace our old and well travelled Olympus which broke last year.

Ideally nice and compact to fit in a jacket pocket. We'll mostly be taking holiday snaps from our cruises, so equal landscapes and city type shots. I'd like a decent optical zoom, must be fairly rugged too as my wife has to visit India with work so anything which can take a bump or two is also good.

Got my eye on a Sony cybershot but may consider a bridge camera if its not too bulky.

So what would yous recommend?

Cheers

[Yomanze]

I would look for a NOS Canon Digital IXUS 60, fantastic little point and shoot just before the megapixels war kicked in. Although it's 6mp this is a *GOOD* thing with compact sensors. Please read:

http://6mpixel.org/en/

http://6mpixel.org/wp-content/2007/09/kompromiss.jpg (the right hand side = more megapixels & more distortion).

[mimoser]

have a look at that one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-Powershot-A1200-Optical--inch/dp/B004I1KWKU/ref=sr_1_1?s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1392987417&sr=1-1&keywords=canon+1200
takes AA Batteries, is cheap, has optical viewfinder, does nice pics, bought it for my daughter, took pics myself, would buy it again …
Michael

[Audio Al]

I have one of these for compact use . I use it for most of my images on AOS

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Sensitivity-Vari-Angle/dp/B002LSI1HS

and a 650D for photography days out

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-EOS-650D-Digital-Camera/dp/B0089V4CJC