The five best cameras under £100

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Buy a Traveler camera from Aldi. 12 Megapixels, really sharp picture, 3 year warrany. And all for £29. Brill!

It is now Spring 2012 why has Yahoo got such old content?

I have a Panasonic DMC-TZ2 camera with 10 times optical zoom which is good for sport and air shows but as you are all saying, you can't see anthing on the screen on a sunny day and you take pot luck getting your shot. I also have a Sony Cyber Shot DSCW15 which only has 3 times optical zoom but it has a viewfinder! At air shows and sporting events, you can't miss getting your shot. I'm waiting for a bigger zoom camera with a viewfinder - then I'll buy one. Until then, I;ll stick with what I've got.

no viewfinders ! what is tis "expert" thinking. won't change my old Fuji until someone in design or marketing get their heads sorted

My ten year old Olympus Mju400 has a lurid Ferrari red metal body.
It also has a viewfinder.
I have looked at alternatives and found none.
Well, there WAS one, an Olympus Trip 35 with an amazing viewfinder. So I bought it.
Better still, I enjoy it and so, 'no go Lomo' or all the expensive gadgets.
Colin Margate

Excellent viewfinder plus screen (touch screen),.10x optcal zoom 120x digital on video. Seperate video and still shooting.. No its not a compact, its my old (almost ancient) Sony Video recordder DCR-TRV33E!! OK a bit more bulky but 2 cameras in one with high quality on both!

I agree with Ray of sunshine about traveler cameras from Aldi. I bought the DC 120 model, a 12 megapixel compact that I take in my bag, along with my Olympus DSLR, and I find that the quality is just as good,and that most of the time I use the traveler, the only advantage of the Olympus is the zoom. And the price! £29-95. Well done Aldi.

The only comment , why is it that the manufacturers are not listening to what people want, the people who design the camaras are not actually using them otherwise they would know the faults, and the pitfalls, same applies to the mobile phone screens.

I have a Kodax EasyshareDX6440 Maybe its a small digital display against these new cameras But it has a super view finder . Is it realy so important to try to give a biger digital display window. No matter what the weather I still use the view finder get a lot more control over the picture. holding the camera against the eye has always been a success story, Why spoil a good a good camera for the want of view finder.

stupid article really .... best advice i was given when buying a camera ..... go to the shop and try them out for yourself. any decent camera shop will let you "try before you buy". Cameras are different weights, different sizes etc etc etc and more often than not the more effects they lavish onto the camera the worse the final picture will be ..... like Micheal above i have a Canon ... ok it cost more than £100 but the image quality is superb and it doesn't have loads of built in effects ..... that's what Photoshop is for!

Personally, I have found Canon to make the best compact cameras, with Panasonic a close second. Nikon Compacts tend to be pretty average (but their DSLR's are excellent) and Kodak get pretty bad reviews on most photography sites.

Have just bought a Samsung PL211 for £100 from Argos. I was looking for something with an optical viewfinder but this one has "intelligent brightness" which means that the screen adjusts itself so it can be used in bright sunlight. Don't ask me if it works though, It's been overcast since I got it!
A big beef is that it came with with no paper/hard copy manual, just the usual CD. This is a PDF file and is not even printer friendly. If I had printed it, the diagrams would not have appeared.
Had to call Samsung for the paper version which will arrive in 7/10 days but it was a 0845 number so I spent at least a quid.
This is all so stupid. Do they expect us to carry a laptop around so we can read the manual?
Wouldn't be able to read that in bright sunlight anyway!

l have bought several small cameras with screens only and they are no good at all,when bought a shade made it worse all l could see was my eye,so l have gone to use the big Lumix FZ7 but l carry in my pocket almost all the time is my old Lieca 3b it may be nearly 80 years old but the quite of the pictures are better than ninety percent than the stuff that people think their pictures are wonderfull.Rember if you buy low film speed 100 or less it's posible to play about with it and get enlargements and still keep clear pictures.Last autumn l was asked for some poster pictures and the best ones were taken using the Lieca and are on a shop wall.l may by another small camera if it had got a viewfinder.

I have a Sony Cybershot 5.1 mpx AND it has a view finder plus screen and can switch between the two. Using a view finder increases the battery life a lot. Large screens large consumption equal low battery life. Huge images are wasted when using PowerPoint.

I have the Olympus and it is excellent. Gread Wide Angle and super Zoom

my Practica Super TL 35 mm camera still beats most of my digital cameras,it's faster,sharper,more robust and has interchangeable lenses,I bought it in Germany in 1968,good valve for money,did 3 tours of Norther Ireland with me in the army,which i managed to take quite a few "Action" shots!!

I agree, bring back the viewfinder

I would never buy a Sony thanks to their insistance on using a memory card other than SD, which is quickly becoming the standard. Both my TV and my netbook come with an SD slot, so I can just take my pictures and then view them instantly on a bigger screen or save to my hard drive. Any other type of storage would drive me nuts! Plus the cards are way more expensive than SD!

Will Yahoo reporters please note: look up the difference in meaning between the word compliment and the word complement!