My Canon went kaboom!

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Griff

We went to Quebec City over the weekend for the 400th year celebration. Unfortunately, the flash in my camera did its best gunshot sound imitation followed by a tiny little smoke puff. Does anybody know what I'm looking at for repair bills vs the diminishing value of the camera? It's a Canon PowerShot S1 IS 3.2 megapixel with a 10x optical zoom. We're thinking about a new camera anyway and the girls could use this one without the flash.

I've been EXTREMELY happy with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4K. It's 8.1 Megapixel which is probably more than I'll ever need. It has all kinds of cool stuff, like you can program your kids b'day into the camera, and when you take photos of them in "baby" mode, it puts the number of years, months, and days they are into the file so you can see it later. It has a 10x optical zoom with a Leica lens and a 2.5" lcd screen. You can find it for under $200 now.

If you don't mind spending about $100 more, they have a 9 Megapixel version of this camera.... The DMC-TZ5K.