2nd'ed.

You cant beat a sony. We have an old 3mp DSC S75 in work, big old beast but it takes better photos than the expensive 7mp canon and Pentax cameras that allegedly replaced it.

The sony has a proper nice lens (Carl Zeiss - may be typo?) whereas the other 'cheapies' tend to have some shit lens made by the cameras manufacturer or some computer company.

Te other thing with sony stuff is the unrivalled build quality. Most of their entertainment stuff is scarey money but the cameras are very reasonable imo.