Point and shoot cheap but outstanding?

It was an absolute bargain and took some punishment in some very different climates without any bother. I'm finally going through my photos now I'm back home and the picture quality is brilliant (I'd like to think due to the quality of the photographer, ha ha). I was doubtful at first because Chelsea were sponsored by them but was won round when people mentioned that a lot of other camera manufacturers etc. use parts made by Samsung in their cameras and what have you. Blimey, I sound like I bloody work for them. I have previosuly used Vivitar and back in the days of using film had a selection of Practika SLR's.

MY SLR times were Minolta (SRT-101b), Nikon (F3), Canon (EOS) - and in the very early days.... Zenith.
Now I'm giving my age away.
Out of all of them - despite the technology improving so fast it was diificult to keep up, the best lens I ever had - was the dedicated Minolta one.
Nothing else (SLR) came near.

Zenith? with Helios lens?Do you remember Zenith set with 300mm tele in rifle style?
I collect such things and I have just found it.

I do remember it very well.
I started off with the Zenith 'E', then 'Upgraded' (Ha!) to the Zenith 'EM'
remember that light meter? It was in the top - a little needle that you lined up a bit like a spirit level.
My friend made me very jealous when he got the Zenith TTL.
Through The lense metering - a brand new camera and 30-50 lens for under £50.
How things have evolved since the '80s - huih?

Thank you Kucinta! That pentax pw90 looks like a winner!
I appreciate all the responses (that stayed on topic) haha.

Cheers

• A lot of T.T.er's hated the word 'Samsung' when S suggested a couple of models last year.

No, we did not hate the word Samsung - but you stated that this point and shoot was as good as any dSLR if not better at a fraction of the money. And that was plain wrong - back last year and still is now.

From the link you provided yourself above:
"I did see quite a bit of noise when viewing at 100%, however at full screen the photos look great. This was even when the camera chose a lower ISO setting of 100 or 200."

Bottom line is you get what you pay for. It won't be a bad camera, but it won't be 'outstanding' either and nowhere near the quality of a dSLR as you claimed last year.
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