[tlr]

I've got the Canon Ixus 860 IS, and I'm not impressed. It got great reviews, and doesn't try and cram loads of pixels onto the sensor (only 8mp), but it seems ridiculously noisy at all iso. Maybe the 870 is better.....

[dave]

I'm not seeing any compacts yet that show you the image back to front and upside down on the screen. They needs to modernise that shit.

[GCW]

Thanks to everyone for input.

We got the Canon IXUS 990 IS in the end, and having used it since Chrimbo we loce it.  Compact, solid, good quality images.  And the 720p video isn't bad either.