Which Digital for £300??

[v15ben]

Some scrote decided to steal my camera on Friday Night and I was not best pleased to say the least. However that does give me £300 to replace it with!

I have been looking at the Canon Ixus 40 and the Sony Cybershot in slim or standard size. I will probably be including a 512MB memory card in the price as well.

What can anyone recommend at this money and does anyone know of any good prices floating around out there? I have looked a lot on pricerunner.com which seems to give the best deals, but if anyone can come up with another answer that would be good!

Thanks

[v15ben]

Thanks for the ideas folks, keep them coming

The total funds I have available from the insurers are £289.00 which will hopefully include a 512MB memory card pro and if possible I could sneak a camera case in there as well.

Price runner is showing a 7.2mega pixel Cybershot slimline at £239.00 and the Canon Ixus 40 at a best price £211.00

I am going to add a 512 card as well which I have found for circa £50 and the case shouldn't be much over a tenner should it??

Is it possible to get a higher megapixel Ixus than the 4.0Mpx of the Ixus 40??

At the moment it looks like the cybershot is going to be replaced with the newer model of the same camera, does that sound like a fair choice??

Thanks

[v15ben]

Fantastic car by the way

I have chosen to go for the cybershot I think, it's the camera I am used to and seems to do everything I need very well. I am not sure of the difference between the two styles of cybershot that are available:

The flat, rectangle shaped one like this:
www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/56757/art/sony/cyber-shot-dsc-t3-silver.html

and the standard style like this:
www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/46149/art/sony/cybershot-dsc-p93.html

What are the differences if any? The flat one has a larger screen but they share virtually everything else in common. The only thing is that the standard camera has 7.2Mpx and the flat one only goes up to 5.1Mpx as far as I can see.

Which one should I go for and is the difference in Mpx necessarily vital??

[v15ben]

Thanks for that Grant.
I think it is a contest between the Cybershot models, i.e. the flat one and the slimline original.
Should get it sorted soon enough!

[v15ben]

Right - decision made!
Sony Cybershot T3 on the way.
Will have to see if it's as good as it looks!