So last month I (as it turned out) foolishly decided to lend Gordon my camera on his little ‘save the world’ (or at least try and save a small portion of Bangladesh) trip. However unfortunately the camera got stolen right at the end of his trip, so he lost all the photos, which is a real shame, and I lost my camera, which is damn right criminal. However no point in crying over spilt milk, so the hunt is on for a replacement for my point and shoot camera.

I want to take this opportunity to wax lyrically about the fact that my stolen camera was actually an exceptionally good camera. My only complaint with it all was the fact that they’ve got a really shitty proprietary system for moving pictures from the camera rather than a simple USB cable connection into the computer and be done with it, honestly I don’t need more photo applications on my computer, I’ve got like 20 of those, enough already.

It was also pretty unique in many respects as it was one of the few (only?) cameras to actually have two lenses. So you can imagine my disappoint,..nay, disgust at the fact that Kodak no longer make that type of camera..what is this world coming to when you can’t rely on a company to continue developing the thing that makes them stand out from the rest, I ask you?

So the search for something different begins. I think I’ve decided on the camera to go for, specifically the Samsung NV20.

However before I go ahead and buy it I wanted to ask everyone about their thoughts on which camera is the best point and shoot on the market. I looked at the flickr camera list and I’m not so sure about the Canon, seems awefully generic to me. So what do you have as a point and shoot and what do you think about it, or if you’re in the know, what camera should I be looking to buy?