My old camera had one too many shocks from all the times I’ve dropped it, and finally gave up the ghost a couple of months ago. I shopped around and picked myself up a Canon PowerShot SX120 for under $300. It’s a step up from my old PowerShot A510, lots of zoom and lots of megapixel. Very happy with it, will have to get out more and get some snaps.
Camera has a lot of good features, especially like being able to detect ‘closed eyes’ . I’ve had some otherwise great group photos wrecked because of this.