Comment Re:Canon or Nikon (Score 1) 569
- Easy to carry anywhere: more opportunities to take photos
- Less expensive/lighter weight: fewer worries about the hardware
- Fewer functions to fiddle with: fewer distractions from the goal of taking a picture
There are many good pocket cameras that take good quality pictures, in general it should be enough just to pick a price point, and go with recent models from known brands: Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Panasonic, Olympus, and a few others.
I should point out that the size of the camera is very important. If you ever have to think "should I take the camera or not", your camera is not the right size for the job.