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My inlaws see so many offers, they just don't know anymore... first we were thinking olymus, then samsung, then canon...

and frankly,for every positive review you find a negative, so what's your personal fav? budget 200 euro (170 pounds?)

Don't forget the Panasonics too:
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/77414/show.html

I have a (pretty old now) Canon Powershot A610 Canon Powershot A610 which I think I got new for about £120-£140. I doubt you'd find that exact model anywhere, but if you can find the newer model then I have found it to be a decent little thing to own.

It's macro function is pretty good, and can shoot from about a centimetre away:


(that's a sheared of 2.25mm needle tip end, the actual end being less than 1mm for context)

It's also has a good amount of manual control of DoF, focus, white balancing, shutter speed, etc, so you can get different effects just by playing about with it a bit:




And the auto function isn't too bad, either. Oh, and the video quality is pretty good, too.