"H.S." wrote in message
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Hello,

I am looking for a P&S going to be a gift for a relative of mine. I am
looking for a battery-included (Li ion), at least 6 MP, reasonably good
picture quality and costing around $110 (in Canada) camera. There is
some leeway in the price. If the lens starts from 28mm, all the better.
Also, ease of use and no complicated controls are desired (the user is
not familiar with camera controls). So cameras in which menus are needed
for even routine typical touristy picture taking sessions are something
I want to stay away from.

Some of the ones I am looking at a
Nikon Coolpix 8MP Digital Camera (L18)
Fujifilm Finepix F480 8.2MP
Nikon Coolpix P50
Nikon Coolpix L16
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W110

I wanted to know of people can comment on these and if somebody can
suggest other models to look at. Obviously, given the constraints I
mentioned above, a camera with shorter shutter lag and good picture
quality is desired.

Thanks.

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Quite a few of my friends have one of those elegant looking Lumix cameras,
I think they have suffix's like FX-30 or something similar after the word
LUMIX. One of he recent models starts at 25mm.

I had one but gave it away as a present to my friend, because I did not like
it, image was'nt up to standard, no manual etc. But my friend who had
previously had a compact film camera was thrilled. Another friend got one
after getting into photography via a camera phone.

As you can see, I have avoided selling a camera on its technical ability as
I think 99% of people that are asking about entry level cameras don't want
anything more than a small, good looking camera to take snapshots.