Robust Point-and-Shoot Needed

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Hi - first post on here, so I hope I'm in the right place with this question...

I need a tough, cheap point-and-shoot camera for on-site use (landscape gardening - building - that sort of thing) Needs to be waterproof and ideally have an internal lens setup - i've destroyed 3 cheapo jobs with lenses that whir out of the body when you switch them on. Doesn't need much in way of zoom, but wide angle is necessity, as is a decent macro - so I can snap pic's of flowers/shrub details and show to punters rather than trying to describe them. Budget - well, £100 tops to be honest. I'm currently using my mobile phone for snaps but i'm not happy with the pictures and i'll probably destroy the phone in fairly short order as well, so I really need a camera asap.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
Sony T series are generally pretty good. You'd have to get a used one though as I'm not sure they do any for under 100..
 
Look at the olympus mju ones, I have a u720 sw that I use for snorkeling and stuff and it's totally waterproof and shock proof (it's been dropped many times!) which is a fairly old model they now do quite a range of them including specially extra toughened ones for people like yourself. Not sure if they'd be in your budget though
 
mju again
and there is a fuji tough camara, at 6MP
but the mju is dinky, and very handy for such snaps, not too expensive either
 
This could be just the thing... Ok, it's second hand - but you're not going to get anything as robust as you seem to be asking for new at under £100 :shrug:

Disclaimer: ebay item is nothing to do with me - just did a search and this was the only item under budget!
 
Another vote for the Muju.

I have the Olympus U 850 SW - 8 mp, 3x optical zoom.

I use it for sea kayaking - gets wet, salty and bashed around but keeps going.

Ken
 
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