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PowerShot S40 with its clothes off. I couldn't find anything to tighten or re-seat, and the unreliable connection to the LCD leaves it barely usable. (I don't seem to have made it worse though.)
The failure isn't particularly surprising, since the camera lives in my bike panniers, and so spends half an hour or so being vigorously bumped around each day.
My options for a goes-everywhere camera seem to be...
- Put up with the current broken one.
- Find another cheap second-hand camera (or the cheapest new compact on the market) and bounce it around in my bike panniers for six months and then go through the whole process again.
- Bounce my 350D (and an expensive lens or two) around in bike panniers for six months until I have to replace that.
- Get a ruggedized camera such as the Olympus μ850SW. £140-180 depending where you get it, but closely associated with a rather odious bit of vendor lock-in. I don't care about the availability of the on-camera feature much, and if I did there are web pages which describe how to hack the cards, but I don't much like the principle.
- Other advertized-as-droppable options would be the Ricoh 500G or G600. In excess of £300.
Any other possibilities I've missed? None of them feel particularly attractive...