We still swear by those Olympus Camedia (The C- Series), in our family. Small, lightweight, 10x optical zoom, and great quality. Mine is the 700, lesser pixel quantity by far, but here's a point-and-shoot of a subject you've seen before:

Hurricane Sarah

I took the picture at the lowest density, then ran it through Photo Shop and "thinned" it some more to make it load faster. It is still an admissable picture, after all of that.