I know you all may laugh at this but back when i worked at CompUSA (i think like 3 years ago) i did this sales contest where if you sold a certain amount of Kodak cameras you would get the camera that was in the tier of the amount you sold. well i sold 15 of them like 2 away from the top, and i received a 3.2 mp Kodak camera.
I wasnt sure what the quality was going to be like because kodak was pretty cheap when it came to digital cameras.
I took a crap load of pics with that camera and that camera fucking rocked. I compared it to my dads expensive ass olympus camedia camera and the kodak blew it out of the water with the quality of pics it was taking. I loved that camera so much.
But then after like 3 years of taking pictures it finally was dropped too many times and something broke inside of it and inside of my heart.
But anyways if your looking for a cheap camera that will do you right i would go with a kodak.