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I'm pretty sure I'm the one who started that Canon A series "meme", since I used the wording "The answer to this is always Canon A series".
Maybe it's time for more details The Canon As: -mostly have full manual focus/aperture/exposure. -are among the cheaper full manuals you're likely to find. -are built tough enough to survive a drop better than most others. -take AA batteries. -have the usual Canon reliability in automatic mode: fewer motion blurred/overexposed/underexposed/out of focus shots than the competition. -have hackable firmware if they use the Digic II or III ASIC chips. -are fast enough to capture your niece walking up the aisle at graduation, rather than the back of the next student's head. -have LCDs you can see in daylight. -inspire love in their owners bordering on creepy.
However, they also have the usual Canon "smoothness" where the images seem slightly out of focus.
If you want sharper focus, certain Sony and Panasonic models outperform Canon. But you'll have to learn to keep the focal length longer than the automatic setting wants. Otherwise your depth of field will be too shallow to take advantage of those sharp lenses.
If you want saturated color, Fuji emphasizes that.
If you want pocket size, Casio tends to be the smallest.
I don't want to ignore Nikon, but I can't think of anything in particular to recommend it.
pbase and flickr will show you how your model does in automatic mode. You'll have to find a good review to see how it performs for a trained user. (Those sharp Sonys, for example, don't look sharp at all on pbase.)
One thing I find frustrating is when the photo looks very different from the pre-shot image in your LCD. I find Olympus especially offensive in this regard, and will probably never buy another one.
Flame on.
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