Compacts can be surprisingly good really, especially some of the old 35mm compacts. I had a Samsung Vega 77i 35mm compact back around 2000 and I assumed the shots from it were pants because the prints came back rather rough, but scanning them in showed that it actually had a pretty good quality lens as the shots came out quite well.
...unfortunately I ebayed it when I went digital but now wish I still had it.
I took this with it but need to re-scan it as this was scanned on my old crummy Canon FS-2710:
on the Paignton to Kingswear railway in Devon.
It had a panoramic mode where blinds flipped out to cover part of the film (not very straight though!), which was fun to play with.