What's The Best Compact Money Can Buy?

[Q Wales]

Having ruled out the Canon G9 due to size, I was pretty sure I was going to buy a Panasonic LX3 but I really don't think I can live with the rather pathetic 2.5 zoom. As far as I can tell my next best option is the Panasonic TZ5 which takes pretty high quality pics and has a 10x Zoom. Video is fairly important to me too. Does anyone have any better suggestions?

[Pirate!!]

Ahoy!

2 of your choices are in this thread . . . 3 are not. See my post.

I can't honestly think of anything else at the top of the pocket camera range with manual control, external flash mount and decent optical zoom. Doesn't apply to all I grant you, and they do differ budget wise. The Sony H50 is a prosumer model.

[Q Wales]

Thanks for the reply, I went with the TZ5 and am very happy with it picture wise. The speaker/Mic are rubbish though. You cant hear the speaker and the mic is placed where you naturaly put your fingures when holding the camera.

[kille911]

If your talking about point and shoot camera's, i would choose the new Canon 14.7MP camera, its on future shop/ bestbuy.ca and/or .com for $429.99-$499.99. I recommend this Camera because it shoots in RAW and Jpeg formates, plus with a 14Mp+ sensor, it's Awesome VALUE!