Thx Liz :-) Would you believe a friend popped round today and had his IXUS L1 with him which unless I'm wrong, is exactly the same size so had a lil play with it and the size is fine for my needs. A bit taller than the DSC-U30, but small enough to hang from my neck (as I do ...lol).

I have one worry if you can iron this one out at all ?? My friend thinks he knows everything about camera's (but actually not a lot! ...lol, you know the type!) Well he says I will be taking a backstep in picture quality over my old G2 as any camera with a small lens, can NEVER produce pics of the quality of say the G2. I understand very little myself, and altho both are 4Mega Pixels, the S400 does have quite a bit smaller lens from what I see.

Is there any sense in what he says ?? or is it all twaddle ???

lol

Cheers

Paul.