There's nothing wrong with the image quality of my el-cheapo Samsung. Its only downfall is shutter lag. Even that's tolerable for landscape work. Once you get experience, you can make your own informed decisions about what "good" camera you want/need.
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Horses for courses, do you know how you will use this? Point and shoot cameras vary greatly in cost and quality. How big do you want to print your images? Doing family, travel, or sports? These things may matter or not. If just starting out and you do not know, buy xxxx brand name camera for $2-400 and see what you like or need. Odds are for that money you can buy a 6-7Mp, which may be all you need. Good for 5x7 or even an 8x10 print for most folk. What size body do you want? Mini mini, there are some really small ones today with same quality. My hands are too big for these, gave a CAsio to one of my daughters, it was a Casio 10mp S1000, I think. She loves it but it was too tiny for me. IF you really want one of the best point and shoots, then either look at the Canon G7, or similar Nikon or whatever, the G7, which is what I ended up with, do everything, not quite tiny but not huge compared to a DSLR, expect to pay $600ish, maybe less. You get 10Mp also, and ability to make bigger prints if need be. This is not for a shirt pocket, where the Casio was, but small enough for a coat pocket. Also if you are really serious about photography for the same $$ -900, you can get an entry level DSLR with zoom that will have better image quality and you can grow, but would only do this if you think you have future intentions, you gain in quality but sacrifice in size and weight. Even the G7is plenty camera and just right when I don't want to carry my 5D or M8. If you are doing landscapes, then two things will matter, Mps and size to carry, also IGNORE the digital zoom figures and just look at optical zoom range...