Photography advice

[Phil]

I Think I've narrowed it down a bit, what does everyone think:

http://www.dpreview.com/products/compare...=ascending

Interestingly, in the review for the Panasonic it has a link to a group test for 'compact travel zoom cameras. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/q311trav...ouptest/17

A friend who is a semi professional photographer has said that the DPreview people know what they are on about.  Ignore any user reviews as sometimes they dont 

Any of those will be capable of taking decent pics, its how you use it as much as anything else and you need the time to experiment with it before going to get used to it.