The Canon A series used to be a great compromise between features and price...at a cost, that in this case was its size. The latest models are smaller that previous A models but have lost some of the manual controls that they used to have. The A1100 stilll has optical viewfinder though: http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/canon_powershot_a1100_is_review/
BTW, I read a very favourable review (5 stars) in the French Magazine CdI of the Pentax P70. It seems that the image quality is good and the camera is really small. The drawback is that t has SR based on software post processing, and this produces a lag between frames when shooting at full resolution. No optical VF I am afraid. Regards, Jaume ----- Mensaje original ---- > De: Scott Loveless <[email protected]> > Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Enviado: lunes, 30 de marzo, 2009 15:51:40 > Asunto: point and shoot > > Hi there. > > The 750z I've been using the last few years for snapshots is just > about shot. Besides losing the charger, I've also managed to break > the articulating LCD again (Pentax fixed it under warranty the first > time). So I'm shopping for an inexpensive pocket camera with an > optical viewfinder and it looks like this sort of thing is damn near > extinct. Anyone have any suggestions? > > -- > Scott Loveless > Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

