What Camera ????

[tropicalbob]

I am looking to upgrade my digital camera, at present I have a Canon Ixus 500 which I have been very happy with, the only drawback is the time that it takes for the image to read to the memory card. I know that Canon havce bought out the Ixus 800 but I don't know what the read time is.. Any thoughts from anyone on this or any other camera's that are any good

[Fitzer]

This is an excellent site with lots of in depth reviews that covers all aspects, write speeds being one of them. It's American so the Ixus range gets called something else but you should be able to find them.
http://www.dpreview.com/
Speed of the memory card is also important, I've just upgraded to 133xspeed CF cards and have noticed an improvement on my Canon 300D

[fo3nix]

The card speed is only really important for more high-end cameras that have write times that could take advantage of it.

My top tip as ever are Casio cameras. The Z850 if you want something with lots of control, and the S500 or S600 if you want a nice small very capable camera, but aren't too fussed about lots of manual controls.