Canon PowerShot A470

A good entry level digital camera. It is quite chunky, a bit too big to easily slip into a pocket, but this does make it more robust. It also lets it take ordinary AA size batteries which you ca get pretty well everywhere.

The pictures it takes are pretty good and the digital delay is very short for a camera this cheap so it is ideal for snap shots.

The controls are standard for Canon cameras and I find it easy to use although some people I know don't like the system.

The supplied memory card is, as usual, hardly worth having at only 32MB - enough to try out the camera but you'll need a lot bigger to take a reasonable number of decent pictures.