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I'm looking to buy a new compact camera for an upcoming trip overseas.

I'm tossing up between the Olympus 1030SW ($499) and the Canon IXUS 960IS ($473)..

The olympus is tough and waterproof, but the Canon is cheaper, has higher resolution and well, its a canon... nuff said!

Can anyone suggest any other cameras that they have got currently or have heard good things about?

My price range is about $400-$500

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i have the olympus it is a great camera lots of great features and the fact it is shock proof is awesome for me because i always tend to drop expencive stuff haha and my last sony broke the day after i got it because it fell 60 cm from the top of my PC case -_- and taking picture in the water is fun ahah robust camera you can take anywhere. I have not used the cannon so i cannot compair picture quality but the resolution of the olympus is great

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i had the canon ixus60 i loved it, took exceptional photos etc etc, lasted for a fair while, until it broke the other day. Now the lens doesnt retract back in and the shutter doesnt close oh and the focus well, doesnt focus!! I have also owned an olympus and can say they too were exeptional cameras, never had a problem.

Let us no what u decide as I am also looking at that olympus - its crush proof, waterproof, shock proof - i think that definitely makes up for the price difference.

Cheers

Tahni

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i had the canon ixus60 i loved it, took exceptional photos etc etc, lasted for a fair while, until it broke the other day. Now the lens doesnt retract back in and the shutter doesnt close oh and the focus well, doesnt focus!! I have also owned an olympus and can say they too were exeptional cameras, never had a problem.

Let us no what u decide as I am also looking at that olympus - its crush proof, waterproof, shock proof - i think that definitely makes up for the price difference.

Cheers

Tahni

yer i have had a few cameras and they all tend to be a bit fragile which sucks because you are always worrying about it, but with the olympus it feels really hardy i even took it to the beach in the salt water and in the sand all the lens actions still perfect (i washed it off well in freshwater after) you really can take it anywhere hey spill drinks on it at the pub even, drop it on the dance floor people accidently stand on it you know all situations. good piece of mind :P

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Yeah I contemplated it, but size and weight is my main concern. I'm really after an ultra compact camera. Zoom isnt too important.

i had the canon ixus60 i loved it, took exceptional photos etc etc, lasted for a fair while, until it broke the other day. Now the lens doesnt retract back in and the shutter doesnt close oh and the focus well, doesnt focus!! I have also owned an olympus and can say they too were exeptional cameras, never had a problem.

Let us no what u decide as I am also looking at that olympus - its crush proof, waterproof, shock proof - i think that definitely makes up for the price difference.

Cheers

Tahni

Yeah well a friend of mine has a previous model Olympus tough model (790SW i think?). He lost it while we were out on his boat the other day... we couldnt find it anywhere. A few days later he was cleaning out the boat and found the camera sitting right down in the bottom of the hull in a pool of water!! It had been down there in water and jumping around while we were jumping waves in the boat. He turned it on and it worked perfectly - no problems at all.

That was seriously impressive to me! I would buy the 1030SW but it doesnt come out until "Late February" and I leave for Thailand on the 23rd Feb :P

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Currently have an ixus 60 as the daily snapper, very handy little camera, havent found it fragile, they're small but take a great pic.

Used to have an A70, that thing was like a tank... dropped, kicked, abused, and all it did was keep working. tad old now, poor thing got flogged down in Melbourne.

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