I have very recently purchased a Canon A520 Compact Digital Camera (so if anybody wants my Kyocera S3L let me know). Here is a quick review.
The reason I bought this camera is because of these few key points:
Small (ish)
4 MegaPixels (2272 x 1704)
Full manual control over exposure/shutter/etc
Takes SecureDigital Cards
Runs off x2 AA batteries
A lot of the features (albeit dumbed down a bit) of a Canon SLR
Price (£165 from dabs)
After a few plays with it round Longleat on automatic I have decided it's a very good camera. The picture quality from it is superb for such a small camera. Noise is minimal (providing you have a low ISO, high ISO sucks). There are no weird effects similar to my S3L (looked a bit like a Plasma screen).
The delay in pushing the button and the picture being taken is very good without a flash. Not quite upto SLR standard, but good enough for most uses.
Auto-focusing and all the clever things the camera does are superb. Not a thing to complain about them. In fact, there is nothing I can complain about the camera. I could whinge about the noise in high ISO's, but hey, the quality on low ISO's makes up for it. The battery life is insanely superb, I've managed to fill 128MB card, with lots of deleting and showing of pictures to family and it's still going.
Does anything let this camera down? Yes, I'm afraid it's Canon. There are two minor niggles.
Although I got an English boxed camera from an English company. The manual provided, was German. No problem I thought. I will just download a PDF from the Canon web-site. Nooo, silly me, they don't allow you to download them. You have to buy them off one of their partners. Great!
The good thing about large companies such as Canon is they are international. So a quick visit to the Australian web-site presented me with a free, hi-resolution manual for the camera.
The other down side was the supplied batteries. The camera runs off AA batteries. You can get a day's shooting out of these. The camera has a nice little whole for the charger, but they forget to supply a charger. Not a problem, I shoved the batteries into my standalone charger. After a while I investigated why the charging light hadn't come on. Ah ha, non-rechargable batteries. They supply the camera with a single use set of batteries. Another smart move!?
Anyway, I give the camera 5/5. It's great value for money, and it does everything as well as I expect it to. I give Canon 4/5 for a couple of retarded things. Their excellent engineering and features in the Camera redeem them.