Touch screen camera?

[disneyfanUSA]

I am looking to buy a touch screen camera. Which is the best? I Know of the Nikon s60, Sony T77, Sony T700, Sony T500. Are there any other ones?

 

[GrillMouster]

I've found touch screen cameras to be a little slow in responding to my presses. Also, LCD screens can be difficult to see outdoors in bright light and while wearing polarized sunglasses. Therefore, in those conditions you wouldn't only lose the ability to review your images, you'd lose your camera controls. Finally, I don't like viewing images through all the fingerprints and smudges on the screen.

 

[zackiedawg]

I don't much like touch screen cameras myself, just as a personal preference, but answering your question - dpreview just had an ultra-compact camera shootout, and the Nikon S60 and Sony T700 were included. The recommendations came out 'runner up' for each of them, but the review said the Sony had a more responsive touch screen, retained a few important buttons rather than make them all on screen (like zoom), and the image quality was better. They also mentioned the T77 as being essentially the same camera inside, but with a lower-res screen and a little cheaper, so that might make it worthwhile to consider. And it's smaller and lighter to boot - which is the point of getting a thin small camera anyway - so I'd probably lean towards the T77 if I were in the market for a touch screen.