Digital camera advice?

[pbray]

My 35mm camera is showing signs of age, so I'm thinking about breaking down and getting a digital camera for next month's bike trip. I've never owned a digital camera before, so this is new territory for me.

Any suggestions on makes/models? Good brands or brands to stay away from? I'm looking to spend less than $200, since there's a real possibility that the camera will die an untimely death as it bounces out of the front pack, I use it to break my fall while hiking, I wipe out in gravel, etc.

Thanks.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Until I got my SLR, I've had Kodak digital cameras for point and shoot stuff. They take abuse well: the first one I had got dropped about three minutes after I was given it, and spent its entire life with the battery flap taped in place, but I never had a whit of trouble with it. The next two I got suffered similar abuse and never failed me. Their equivilant today are the Kodak EasyShare C series; in your position I'd probably get the C310 or C530 (I'd get the latter, my own self).

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm pretty unsophisticated when it comes to cameras, so it's just point and shoot. Mostly just pictures of fellow cyclists, as we stand (and sweat) next to important landmarks.