new compact camera for the mother!

[croxsons]

My mum is going on holiday soon, and has decided to move up away from her retro looking Olympus 35mm camera (still with manual focus!) to a compact digital.

The question is, what should I get?

The budget is about £100, no other requirements other than has to be easy to use for someone who has never used a digital before. As she won't be editing the photo's in photoshop, it needs to produce fairly good photos straight off, especially of her new grand-son (I'm chuffed, our first ... now just a day old!).

As an ex powershot user, now an Ixus 70 is my compact choice. Are the powershots still any good? The A470 is 7m/pixels for about the budget, the A460, is 5m for less.

Any thoughts?

[Ordinary Bloke]

Canon or Nikon, they're all good...

[toothlessjim]

My Cybershot is dead simple...stick it on auto n all you need is the zoom and shutter button (if your bieng picky the power button too ) Takes crackin pictures too, I am biased tho having never used any other. w70 would be in your budget now I think.

[AlfaFoxtrot]

One of the IXUS models is still half price on Amazon, it's a nice compact little camera and is overall a good quality one. Got a nice big screen and easy to use.

[SimonV8ster]

Bought one of these about a month ago before I went my my hols -

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128094 

Loads of good reviews and recommended as 'best buy' on various reviews. It has just been replaced by a newer version but the newer one only has a couple of extra features which apprantly aren't worth it.